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From: elf@dgp.toronto.edu (Eugene Fiume)
Subject: Re: /local/bin/unixstat
Message-ID: <1990Feb26.223013.17768@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>
Organization: University of Toronto, CSRI
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Date: 27 Feb 90 03:30:13 GMT
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In article <1990Feb26.173656.17187@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> doc@dgp.toronto.edu (Blaine Price) writes:
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>I'm sure that all of those fascinating commands in Alison's synopsis are
>meaningful to someone, but I'd rather spend my time using a package than
>reading mindless documentation and getting frustrated.

Funny, it seemed to me that many of the functions provided were precisely
the sorts of technical tools you would need to do decent statistics.  If
you want a Mac interface to give you a warm soft feeling, that's one
thing.  If you want to do proper data analysis, you have to know the cold
hard facts.  All of the terms mentioned can be found in a good stats book.

By the way, I strongly suggest you have a look at Maple's stats package.