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From: David Stodolsky <>
Subject: Re: Squeezing even more information from my surveys
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2006 15:18:42 +0200

On 10 Apr 2006, at 18:41, Kennita Watson wrote:

> Is there a data sheet or Web page (not a book, please)
> that I can see about this, or some freeware or low-cost
> shareware that I can run on my Mac?
>
> Wait -- I may have answered my own question.  I typed
>
> "exploratory data analysis" tools
>
> into Google and got 230,000 hits, of which the first
> was the Wikipedia entry.
>
> I may check out
>
> MANET (free Mac-only interactive EDA software)

This will not, apparently, do significance tests.


The open source R statistics system will do anything, but the  
learning curve is extremely steep:

http://www.r-project.org/


If you can get a copy of the JMP IN book from SAS, which includes  
software, that would be a better bet. It is about $60, but limited to  
students.

My experience with free stat software is that you pay a lot in wasted  
time and crashes.


There are a lot of intro stat pages around the Web.



dss


David Stodolsky    Skype: davidstodolsky

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