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- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 16:55:28 GMT
- Reply-To: Ronan M Conroy <RCONROY@IRLEARN.UCD.IE>
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- From: Ronan M Conroy <RCONROY@IRLEARN.UCD.IE>
- Subject: Re: Cricket Graph for teaching
- In-Reply-To: Message of Wed,
- 18 Nov 1992 14:09:42 GMT from <cotte@CS-ACAD-LAN.LAKEHEADU.CA>
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- NO - DON'T DO IT!!
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- Aside from dubious calculation of regressions, my trusty Cricket
- Graph is a good basic GRAPHICS package. It does histograms
- wrong - does them as bar charts - but is otherwise fine.
-
- A good teaching package is Data Desk (mentioned more than once
- on this list). This has great, fast, flexible exploratory graphics
- and is backed with a very useful suite of statistical routines.
- The student version complete with a textbook is called Learning
- Statistics with Data Desk, and is published by WH Freeman - written
- by Data Desk's originator Paul Velleman. ISBN 0-7167-2072-8
-
- I'm using it for teaching basic stats as a hands-on computer course,
- and it's the bees knees. (PC fans: the expression 'the bees knees'
- came from a medieval law which forbade women to have any thought
- biggerthan a bees knee. It was the reason why there were
- so many women COBOL programmers.)
-
- ronan
-