On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 07:53:43AM +0100, Lorenzo Isella wrote:
> I am interested in using Maxima for financial
> applications (portfolio investment and macroeconomics
> studies).
> I browsed through Maxima's manual, but the part about
> statistics looked quite slim (only a Gaussian random
> number generator was listed).
I'd recommend using R (http://www.r-project.org) for this sort of
thing. Maxima is more useful for symbolic manipulation. So for
example, if you want to determine some analytical feature of a model
you are creating, putting the equations into Maxima and asking it
things like what is the closed form for the integral of the formula
between 0 and infinity is a useful idea. On the other hand, for
strictly analyzing data and creating statistical models and making
numerical predictions, R will be a better tool.
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Daniel Lakeland
dlakelan@street-artists.org
http://www.street-artists.org/~dlakelan