Introduction to Statistics with Mathematica 6 Welcome to IT’s seminar on stat. packages Sam Gordji, Weir 107

List of Statistical Packages SPSS SAS Mathematica MathWorks IMSL

List of Statistical Packages SAS SAS (50 Copies available to the faculty and additional 50 copies are available for student use, IT has most of the SAS modules but not all). The cost for SAS is $100 per copy per year. To obtain a copy of SAS please send to or

List of Statistical Packages Mathematica  Mathematica, free copy for faculty, staff, and students. To obtain a copy of Mathematica please visit: p?pagename=mathematica.inc

List of Statistical Packages Matlab  Matlab (available on willow and sweetgum)  Other packages such as Fortran, IMSL, etc. will be mentioned briefly

List of Statistical Packages IMSL  IMSL is a comprehensive package containing Math., stat., and special functions  IMSL is available only on sweetgum  IMSL is a set of subroutines called by a Fortran program

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General Information  This seminar covers simple statistics with Mathematica 6  SPSS, SAS, and Mathematica are available in Weir Student Lab, Weir 107, and several other labs around campus  We’ll look at an example of a regression using Mathematica and an example of a regression using SAS

General Information  SAS performs statistical analysis  SPSS performs statistical analysis and is similar to SAS  Mathematica’s main function is to perform mathematical operations including statistics  MathWorks is similar to Mathematica and is available on willow and sweetgum

General Information  IT staff will assist users to access these packages. We also help users to find the proper procedure to analyze their data. If you need assistance please send an to Sam Gordji at or

Today We’ll Cover  We’ll look at 5 minutes with Mathematica and the Documentation Center  Creating a simple Mathematica example to obtain mean, standard of deviation, and the mode  Without using functions from Mathematica we’ll obtain the mean and the standard of deviation  Useful functions such as random numbers and the “Max” functions will be studied