Introduction to Statistics
with Mathematica 6
Welcome to IT’s seminar on stat.
packages
Sam Gordji, ccsam@olemiss.edu
Weir 107
List of Statistical Packages
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SPSS
SAS
Mathematica
MathWorks
IMSL
List of Statistical Packages
SAS
SAS (50 Copies available to the faculty and
additional 50 copies are available for student
use, IT has most of the SAS modules but not
all). The cost for SAS is $100 per copy per year.
To obtain a copy of SAS please send email to
ccsam@olemiss.edu or
assist@mcsr.olemiss.edu
List of Statistical Packages
Mathematica
 Mathematica, free copy for faculty, staff, and
students. To obtain a copy of Mathematica
please visit:
http://www.mcsr.olemiss.edu/appssubpage.php
?pagename=mathematica.inc
List of Statistical Packages
Matlab
 Matlab (available on willow and sweetgum)
 Other packages such as Fortran, IMSL, etc. will
be mentioned briefly
List of Statistical Packages
IMSL
 IMSL is a comprehensive package containing
Math., stat., and special functions
 IMSL is available only on sweetgum
 IMSL is a set of subroutines called by a Fortran
program
General Information
 Email contact
– ccsam@olemiss.edu
 To download this and other materials visit:
http://www.mcsr.olemiss.edu/appssubpage.
php?pagename=mathcamp.inc
 Please fill out the performance report and leave
your email address so we may contact you for
follow up questions
General Information
 This seminar covers simple statistics
with Mathematica 6
 SPSS, SAS, and Mathematica are
available in Weir Student Lab, Weir 107,
and several other labs around campus
 We’ll look at an example of a regression
using Mathematica and an example of a
regression using SAS
General Information
 SAS performs statistical analysis
 SPSS performs statistical analysis and is
similar to SAS
 Mathematica’s main function is to perform
mathematical operations including
statistics
 MathWorks is similar to Mathematica and
is available on willow and sweetgum
General Information
 IT staff will assist users to access these
packages. We also help users to find the
proper procedure to analyze their data. If
you need assistance please send an email
to Sam Gordji at ccsam@olemiss.edu ,
assist@mcsr.olemiss.edu , or
mathadm@olemiss.edu
Today We’ll Cover
 We’ll look at 5 minutes with Mathematica and the
Documentation Center
 Creating a simple Mathematica example to obtain mean,
standard of deviation, and the mode
 Without using functions from Mathematica we’ll obtain
the mean and the standard of deviation
 Useful functions such as random numbers and the “Max”
functions will be studied