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Steve [Gentoo] escribió: |
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> On Sat, Jun 16, 2007 at 05:22:47PM +0000, James wrote: |
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>> Matlab is the standard for mathematical analysis of all sorts of |
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>> phenomenon, from a mathematical perspective. |
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> I'm familiar with Matlab... you're the second person to mention |
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> Octave... |
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>>> I would like to do some analysis on these signals to see if there are |
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>>> any interesting things that can be demonstrated - for example, if I |
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>>> could show a strong correlation in the signals between two times, but |
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>>> none at other times, I might be able to conclude that there was |
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>>> communication of some description, but only for a fixed duration. |
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>> Very unclear what you are saying. Are these signals related to events in |
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>> your network? More information will help. |
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> I agree - Not only was my post unclear, but I'm unclear about what I |
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> want too. :-) |
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> My data, in reality, consists national statistics - and my |
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> self-appointed challenge is to establish if, subject to appropriate |
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> analysis, they will expose undocumented trends or other anomalies. I |
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> don't know what trends or anomalies I want to find until I discover |
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> them... but I suspect that, once found, they'd be interesting. :-) |
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>> 'exi octave' reveals: |
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> Octave is a good suggestion - but probably not what I need. I've been |
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> pointed at "R" ( http://www.r-project.org/ ) which looks more hopeful, |
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> though I can't find it in portage. If there were an interactive GUI to |
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> apply standard statistical analyses to data as a front-end to R, then |
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> that would likely be just what I want. Failing that - just finding R |
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> in portage would be a step forwards. |
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> I'd be very interested to know if R has competition... |
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R is indeed in portage, you may have not found it due to it being |
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uppercase. Try the following: |
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emerge -pv R # Remember: type 'R' and not 'r' |
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Also, R has commercial alternatives, such as S and S+, but I'm sure you |
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prefer the free version ;-). |
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HTH, |
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Abraham |
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