On 4/26/08, Justin Harford <blindstein at gmail.com> wrote:
> Basically the moral of the story is that regressions and correlations
> are useful in chem. I could talk about correlations but that would
> prolong this message. Is there a way to do either of these with
> maxima? Sure would be nice if I didn't have to open up my vm to do
> the linest function in excel under win.
Take a look at the lsquares (least squares regression) package in Maxima.
?? lsquares
should show some info about it. If you post some example data
I can try to show how lsquares can be applied.
You might consider working with R (http://r-project.org) which is a
general statistical package.
Hope this helps,
Robert Dodier