Re: Please add me to this group
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- Subject: [mg117062] Re: Please add me to this group
- From: DrMajorBob <btreat1 at austin.rr.com>
- Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2011 06:56:25 -0500 (EST)
The histogram of the i-th column of matrix m is Histogram[m[[All, i]]] Bobby On Tue, 08 Mar 2011 04:32:04 -0600, Len Horton <hortonl at bellsouth.net> wrote: > As a new user of Mathematica and as a purchaser of the Home Edition, > which does not include any support, I am trying to figure out how to > take data from an Excel spreadsheet into Mathematica to analyze and > graph. > > I have taken a couple of free seminars on line, but I have not been able > to figure out how to do just a few basic statistical things. Each > column in my spreadsheet is a variable. In order to produce a histogram > of one of those variables, I had to open the spreadsheet in Excel, copy > the column, then paste it into the curly braces inside the Histogram > function, then eliminate the carriage returns manually while inserting > commas manually in order to produce the Histogram. Surely there must be > a faster way. > > In the first place, I cannot tell where to place the Excel file so that > Mathematica knows where it is. Anything you could do to get me started > would be much appreciated. > > Sincerely, > > Len Horton > Atlanta -- DrMajorBob at yahoo.com