Re: Statistics lib for Perl and news server for comp.lang.perl

Andreas Koenig (k@anna.mind.de)
Mon, 20 Nov 1995 14:36:44 +0100


>>>>> "phillip" == Phillip M Sparks <sparks@worms-giis.army.mil> writes:

 phillip> I'm looking for a statistics library for PERL that have some of the functions
 phillip> that LOTUS, Excel, and Paradox has in terms of std-dev, mean, moving averages, 
 phillip> and forecasting.  Does anyone know of someone who already has one?

CPAN offers:

Math        ILYAZ  MathPari_a3.tar.gz                12.7  02 Oct 1995
Math        ULPFR  Math-Approx-0.1.tar.gz             2.3  27 Oct 1995
Math        ULPFR  Math-Matrix-0.1.tar.gz             2.4  27 Oct 1995
Statistics  JKAST  StatisticsDescriptive-1.1.tar.gz   4.0  20 Aug 1995
Statistics  JONO   Statistics-ChiSquare-0.1.tar.gz    4.4  05 Nov 1995

available from your nearest CPAN server. The list of CPAN servers is
available from ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/languages/perl/CPAN/CPAN. The
always-up-to-date index of modules is in
CPAN/modules/01modules.index.html.

 phillip> ALSO....
 phillip> I am working with the military in Germany and try to use news.uni-stuttgart.de
 phillip> as my news server, but they do not copy the comp.lang.perl files.  Is there a 
 phillip> news server that I can use to get access to read and post perl messages?  It
 phillip> would help me expand my resources.

comp.lang.perl is dead, you should ask for comp.lang.perl.misc,
comp.lang.perl.announce, comp.lang perl.tk. If they don't have that, I know not more.

 phillip> Thanks,
 phillip> Phil

Hope, that helps,
andreas