STA 290 Statistical Laboratory

 

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COMPUTING SUPPORT

We will be using R (or S-Plus) and WinBugs for data analysis. Programs such as Excel or Minitab are not acceptable.

Heiberger & Holland files

Resources for R:

R Project Site: The R Project's homepage with Documentation, Downloading R, FAQs, more (subset given below)

An Introduction to R (the most up-to-date version of the Intro notes)

Books

Bugs and WinBugs (Windows)

Downloading S-Plus 7 (for Windows) Free for students at Duke! (please note license keys on OIT site)

S-plus Documentation (UNIX) (see also the R documentation)

ESS (Emacs Speaks Statistics) provides a common, generic and useful interface to many statistical packages through Emacs. It currently has interfaces to S, R, XLisp-Stat, and SAS, with other statistical languages such as Stata, SPSS, and Fiasco slated for implementations in the future.

ESS Reference Card (pdf)

Running R/S-Plus with ESS locally

sample .emacs file for ACPUB (copy or use to modify) with ESS startup (Currently this works ONLY with xemacs)

Emacs Quick Reference Card

Emacs Quick Tutorial

Gnu Emacs Site and XEmacs Site

Getting Started with LaTeX

Introduction ( pdf , LaTeX source),

Including Graphs in LaTeX (adding-graphics.tex, geyser-plot.ps, geyser-plot.pdf)

AucTeX (emacs mode for editing LaTeX) refcard (pdf)

Prosper Presentations (pdf, LaTeX source)

Prosper Manual

Other Useful Software for Windows (Ghostview, Acroread, Emacs, etc)


Updated
September 2, 2005