Saturday, May 19, 2012

statistics software alternative to SPSS or STATA

There's Project R, a mature, open-source statistical computing package.

And then there's SOFA - Statistics Open For All - which not only intends to create a mature statistical computing tool, but make it easy as well.

Both package will run on Linux, Windows or the MacOS.

Best Ubuntu repository in Southeast Asia

I've never found a repo mirrin in the Philippines that's fast or updated, so I usually get my updates elsewhere, Taiwan or Malaysia.  I (belatedly) found this Amazon's Simple Storage Service (S3) Ubuntu repository hosted in Singapore:
http://ap-southeast-1.ec2.archive.ubuntu.com.s3.amazonaws.com/ubuntu/

It's pretty fast, and I there's little doubt about their capacity, considering their commercial requirements.

Just add it to your sources.list.