recommendation for stats and linear algebra software for PPC Linux

[Bondtrails]

Look into APL or A+, they are amazing at doing vector and matrix based 
math operations.
A+ you can find at http://www.aplusdev.org/ and its under the GPL 
license

Or try J notation: http://www.jsoftware.com/

--Bondster!!

On Thursday, December 5, 2002, at 08:06  PM, Kevin B. Hendricks wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I need to get back into doing linear algebra and statistics again 
> (basic
> statistics, eigenvectors, regression, principal components, factor
> analysis, structural equation modeling at the level of SAS, SPSS, 
> LISREL,
> etc.
>
> I have found links to netlib and the literally tons of free/public 
> domain
> software available for doing math and statistics.
>
> I spent the afternoon downloading R (the GPL clone of Splus) and 
> Octave,
> and the old EISPack source I remember using once a long time ago, and 
> also
> downloaded blas, atlas, and lapack.
>
> There is alot of stuff out there.
>
> If I am first and foremost looking for something to replace SAS/stat 
> and
> SPSS primarily for statistics, general linear models, regression 
> instead
> of my now ancient fortran code that invoked EISPACK routines to solve
> linear models,  are these the right packages to be looking at and 
> playing
> with?
>
> If not, what should I be using?
>
> Ideas and recommendations welcome.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Kevin
>
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