Re: Mathematical Statistics
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- Subject: [mg46227] Re: Mathematical Statistics
- From: Paul Abbott <paul at physics.uwa.edu.au>
- Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 07:15:53 -0500 (EST)
- Organization: The University of Western Australia
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In article <c07upk$o5a$1 at smc.vnet.net>, junk4 at microserf.org.uk (C Rose) wrote: > Thanks for your post, but I want to be able to symbolically compute > things like conditional distributions, conditional expectations, > marginal distributions etc. Maybe the docs imply this, but I wasn't > sure. This is very amusing: the poster of this message is C(hris) Rose and one of the authors of mathStatica is C(olin) Rose. Anyway, Colin Rose <colin at tri.org.au> can answer your questions. Cheers, Paul > "Steve Luttrell" <steve1 at _removemefirst_luttrell.org.uk> wrote in message > news:<c04er0$gd7$1 at smc.vnet.net>... > > Have a look at > > http://documents.wolfram.com/v5/Add-onsLinks/StandardPackages/Statistics/ind > > ex.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 > > > > -- Paul Abbott Phone: +61 8 9380 2734 School of Physics, M013 Fax: +61 8 9380 1014 The University of Western Australia (CRICOS Provider No 00126G) 35 Stirling Highway Crawley WA 6009 mailto:paul at physics.uwa.edu.au AUSTRALIA http://physics.uwa.edu.au/~paul