From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 4 07:16:25 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3FC716A4CE for ; Fri, 4 Jun 2004 07:16:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mygirlfriday.info (user204.net795.mo.sprint-hsd.net [65.41.216.204]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E030643D2D for ; Fri, 4 Jun 2004 07:16:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gv-list-freebsdquestions@mygirlfriday.info) Received: (qmail 35822 invoked from network); 4 Jun 2004 14:15:10 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO major.mygirlfriday.info) (192.168.0.5) by mongo.mygirlfriday.info with SMTP; 4 Jun 2004 14:15:10 -0000 Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2004 09:15:10 -0500 From: Gary Organization: Hardly X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <190368579.20040604091510@mygirlfriday.info> To: Matthew Seaman and Mike Jeays In-Reply-To: <20040604092003.GD85236@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <7210326308.20040603205843@mygirlfriday.info> <20040604092003.GD85236@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re[2]: statistical program for FreeBSD? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 04 Jun 2004 14:16:25 -0000 Hi Matthew and Mike, On Fri, 4 Jun 2004 10:20:03 +0100 UTC (6/4/2004, 4:20 AM -0500 UTC my time), Matthew Seaman wrote: M> Hmmm... I've done the odd bit of Statistical work in my time, but I've M> never heard of "Heckman's Phase 2 model". Which unfortunately M> suggests that you're going to need something rather more sophisticated M> than the general run of the mill available in ports. Actually it is called Heckman's 2 step model, or Heckman Two-Step Selection Correction Estimation.. He won the Nobel Prize for this in 2000, for his development of theory and methods for analyzing selective samples - Empirical Microeconomics as described here. http://www.bsos.umd.edu/econ/panagariya/apecon/ET/et18-oct00.htm M> If you: M> % cd /usr/ports M> % make search key=statistics M> you will get a long list of ports that do something to do with M> statistics. For the most part that's either gathering statistical M> data from the operation of some program, or processing that data M> usually in a relatively simple manner to produce various graphs and M> reports. However amidst the muck there are one or two glitters of M> what might be gems. There's math/xldlas and math/xlispstat which are M> general purpose "statistics" packages. There are a number of modules M> for various programming languages that implement statistical M> functions, eg. math/p5-Statistics-Table-F This is just excellent news. Thank you, as always, for your detailed, informative responses. M> There are also some symbolic mathematics programs which might serve: M> math/jacal and math/maxima M> However, probably your best bet is the math/R port, whose pkg-desc is M> as follows: M> From : This is a great place to start... I am deeply indebted to both you and Mike for this information... Thanks very much. "Ain't open source grand" LOL.. -- Gary The beatings will continue until morale improves.