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What are some valuable Statistical Analysis open source projects?
What are some valuable Statistical Analysis open source projects available right now?
Edit: as pointed out by Sharpie, valuable could mean helping you get things done faster or more cheaply.
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Visualization software for clustering
I want to cluster ~22000 points. Many clustering algorithms work better with higher quality initial guesses. What tools exist that can give me a good idea of the rough shape of the data?
I do want to ...
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Excel as a statistics workbench
It seems that lots of people (including me) like to do exploratory data analysis in Excel. Some limitations, such as the number of rows allowed in a spreadsheet, are a pain but in most cases don't ...
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Recommended visualization libraries for standalone applications
Which visualization libraries (plots, graphs, ...) would you suggest to use in a standalone application (Linux, .Net, Windows, whatever). Reasonable performance would be nice as well.
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Is the R language reliable for the field of economics?
I am a graduate student in economics who recently converted to R from other very well-known statistical packages (I was using SPSS mainly). My little problem at the moment is that I am the only R user ...
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OpenBugs vs. JAGS
I am about to try out a BUGS style environment for estimating Bayesian models. Are there any important advantages to consider in choosing between OpenBugs or JAGS? Is one likely to replace the other ...
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How do I calculate the p-value for each mutual information?
I've calculated the Mutual Information for my dataset using ARACNE, but I need to get p-values for each Mutual information. How do I calculate them? Is there any software for this calculation?
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Software needed to scrape data from graph
Anybody have any experience with software (preferably free, preferably open source) that will take an image of data plotted on cartesian coordinates (a standard, everyday plot) and extract the ...
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Does Julia have any hope of sticking in the statistical community?
I recently read a post from R-Bloggers, that linked to this blog post from John Myles White about a new language called Julia. Julia takes advantage of a just-in-time compiler that gives it wicked ...
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Software for easy-yet-robust data exploration
In my attempts to fight spreadsheet mayhem, I am often evangelical in pushing for more robust tools such as true statistics software (R, Stata, and the like). Recently, I was challenged on this view ...
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Do some of you use Google Docs spreadsheet to conduct and share your statistical work with others?
I know most of you probably feel that Google Docs is still a primitive tool. It is no Matlab or R and not even Excel. Yet, I am baffled at the power of this web based software that just uses the ...
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Tools for modeling financial time series
What modern tools (Windows-based) do you suggest for modeling financial time series?
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Examples of wrapping open source machine learning software in PMML?
Does anyone know of examples of wrapping an existing piece of supervised learning software to output models in PMML format? Of particular interest are learners that just take in labeled vectors of ...
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What are some good (ideally free) tools to give laymen access to basic statistical techniques?
I have been a contract worker for two different companies now, which means I show up at a place for 3-6 months and blow their minds with my awesomeness, but then, to everyone's disappointment, I ...
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Software for learning statistical quality control
I'm taking a course in Statistical Quality Control as an elective in my masters program. We're using Montgomery's Introduction to Statistical Quality Control, 6th Edition.
The book uses minitab ...
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Help with deploying a model
The two main packages I use at work are Palisade Risk and SPSS Clementine - they are both quite old versions and I've been supplementing the ability to analyze properly at work with more modern ...
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What is a good tool and format for representing and communicating the design content of a survey?
Are there any decent tools for writing/designing questionnaires before providing to programmers? Currently Microsoft Word is being used and tracking changes and keeping it standardized has become a ...
