On Jan 14, 2008 9:38 AM, Leroy Wolins <corlee at icsmail.net> wrote:
> It seems that MAXIMA is well suited for doing many common types of least
> squares analysis (e.g., regression, analysis of variance). Much of the
> necessary code could be adapted from IML, SAS, etc. Is anyone working on
> this?
Hi Leroy, thanks for your interest in Maxima. There are some add-on
packages for statistics, namely, stats (statistical tests), descriptive
(descriptive statistics), and lsquares (least squares problems).
The reference manual (http://maxima.sourceforge.net/docs.shtml)
has some info about those packages. We are still developing
statistical functions for Maxima so if you have any ideas or comments
we would be interested to hear about it.
By the way, most discussion about Maxima takes place on the
maxima at math.utexas.edu mailing list. Sign up page:
http://maxima.sourceforge.net/maximalist.html
Hope this helps,
Robert Dodier