regressions and correlation



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