Good Statistics Package For Linux?

taliesin_l · 03-21-2006, 04:38 PM

Hello everyone.

I am in search of a good Statistics package for Linux. I could download an illegal copy of something like minitab to use in windows but if there is something similar for Linux I would much rather use that. Does anyone know of anything good they can recommend?

Synt4x_3rr0r · 03-21-2006, 05:04 PM

What do you mean with Statistics package? What statistics do you wish to see? :S
Tried to search for minitab to see what it was but didnt find much.

Dogmatix · 03-22-2006, 07:15 AM

Both scilab and octave have many statistical functions built in, or you can write your own.

Dogmatix

ps since I haven't posted 5 times, I can't post the url's for these. Head to freshmeat and search for them.

weibullguy · 03-22-2006, 07:34 AM

I have used Minitab, SAS, and S-Plus in Windows. In Linux, I use a package called R. It is an OSS version of S-Plus available for Windows, MacOS, and Linux. Scripts are portable between OS platforms and between R and S-Plus. There are many add-on packages available and you can create your own if needed.

Here is the URL for the R home page -> http://www.r-project.org/

I am a Reliability Engineer, undergraduate work in Electrical Engineering, graduate work in Statistics. I use R on Linux almost exclusively these days.

taliesin_l · 03-22-2006, 02:43 PM

Thankyou very much. I will check R out.