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on becoming a statistic

You know, I spend almost as much time fighting with and relearning new software packages just about every other year as I do actually using said programs for statistical analysis. I need more familiarity with the basic practice of statistics before I feel truly comfortable tearing apart any application and actually convincing it to do what I want it to do.

And then I need something heavy to drop on the computer until it magically produces the graphical depiction of the data that I want it to.

Posted by Derksen on October 3, 2007 11:53 AM |

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Give R a try. It's free, open source, and makes very nice graphs. Plus it's the most popular among statistics grad students, so they're a ton of (also free & open) libraries.

http://www.r-project.org/

Posted by: Scott [TypeKey Profile Page] | October 3, 2007 2:40 PM

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