Re: Dealing with large data sets
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- Subject: [mg42966] Re: Dealing with large data sets
- From: Yves Klett <yk at despammed.com>
- Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2003 00:53:27 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: Comp.Center (RUS), U of Stuttgart, FRG
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Rees schrieb: > Dear all, > > I have a large dataset (156381 points) and I wish to fit a > distribution to the dataset. However I cannot seem to get Mathematica to > recognise the dataset. I imported the data as "testdata" then did > Mean[testdata]. Unfortunately this command just repeated the data and > failed to give me the mean value. Hi Rees, if you are using any version befor 5.0 maybe you forgot to load the right Statistics package. Try something like <<Statistics`DescriptiveStatistics` before executing Mean. For the syntax take a look at the Online Help under "Statistics`DescriptiveStatistics`". Hope that helps, Yves