Re: Mathematical Statistics
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- Subject: [mg46169] Re: Mathematical Statistics
- From: junk4 at microserf.org.uk (C Rose)
- Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2004 05:54:19 -0500 (EST)
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Hi Steve Thanks for your post, but I want to be able to symbolically compute things like conditional distributions, conditional expectations, marginal distributions etc. Maybe the docs imply this, but I wasn't sure. Any further thoughts? Chris "Steve Luttrell" <steve1 at _removemefirst_luttrell.org.uk> wrote in message news:<c04er0$gd7$1 at smc.vnet.net>... > Have a look at > http://documents.wolfram.com/v5/Add-onsLinks/StandardPackages/Statistics/index.html > for documentation on the statistics facilities built into Mathematica > itself. > > Steve Luttrell > > "C Rose" <junk4 at microserf.org.uk> wrote in message > news:c02ku6$70j$1 at smc.vnet.net... > > Hi everyone > > > > I've never used Mathematica before, but I am considering purchasing a > > 1-year student license. One of the things I'd want to use it for would > > be mathematical statistics. > > > > I am aware of the book and software called mathStatica, which seems to > > do what I want. > > > > I am wondering: is it possible to use raw Mathematica for such > > purposes without mathStatica? > > > > Can anyone recommend Mathematica and/or mathStatica for this purpose? > > > > Your general comments are welcome. Thanks in advance. > > > > Chris > >