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Re: Statistics...help with numpy/scipy install

Date 2013-02-10 11:14 -0700
From Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com>
Subject Re: Statistics...help with numpy/scipy install
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On 02/10/2013 10:35 AM, Rex Macey wrote:
> I'm new to Python with a new windows 8 machine (64-bit OS).  Learning
> programming mainly for fun.  Naturally I downloaded Python 3.3 (who
> doesn't want the latest and greatest).  What I want involves
> functions related to the normal distribution. Based on my google
> research, it appears that SCIPY is a good way to go. That requires
> NUMPY.   I don't seem to find an install that works for my
> environment which leads to the questions on this post: Is there an
> install for my environment and if so, where do I get it? If not, is
> there another package I should use? Or do I need to bite the bullet
> and install an earlier version of Python.  Suggestions and comments
> appreciated. Thanks.

A casual google search seems to indicate that for now, SciPy and NumPy
are for Python 2.x (2.7 is the latest).  I could be wrong though and
often am.  I know a number of popular and useful packages are not yet
available on Python 3.

If you need to do a lot math stuff, there's a complete python system
that bundles a lot of these tools together into a nice package.  It's
called Sage.  http://www.sagemath.org/

There are several non-python packages out there that are really handy as
well:
- R - if you need to do statistics. http://www.r-project.org/
- Octave - a matlab-compatible language. http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/
- SciLab - a math package that has a nice gui. http://www.scilab.org

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Statistics...help with numpy/scipy install Rex Macey <xer0925@gmail.com> - 2013-02-10 09:35 -0800
  Re: Statistics...help with numpy/scipy install Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-02-10 18:10 +0000
    Re: Statistics...help with numpy/scipy install Rex Macey <xer0925@hotmail.com> - 2013-02-10 14:11 -0800
      Re: Statistics...help with numpy/scipy install Rex Macey <xer0925@hotmail.com> - 2013-02-10 14:14 -0800
        Re: Statistics...help with numpy/scipy install Oscar Benjamin <oscar.j.benjamin@gmail.com> - 2013-02-11 01:26 +0000
        Re: Statistics...help with numpy/scipy install David Robinow <drobinow@gmail.com> - 2013-02-10 21:22 -0500
        Re: Statistics...help with numpy/scipy install Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2013-02-10 22:53 -0500
      Re: Statistics...help with numpy/scipy install Rex Macey <xer0925@hotmail.com> - 2013-02-10 14:14 -0800
    Re: Statistics...help with numpy/scipy install Rex Macey <xer0925@hotmail.com> - 2013-02-10 14:11 -0800
  Re: Statistics...help with numpy/scipy install Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> - 2013-02-10 11:14 -0700
  Re: Statistics...help with numpy/scipy install "Colin J. Williams" <cjw@ncf.ca> - 2013-02-10 13:23 -0500
  Re: Statistics...help with numpy/scipy install David Robinow <drobinow@gmail.com> - 2013-02-10 14:29 -0500
  Re: Statistics...help with numpy/scipy install Oscar Benjamin <oscar.j.benjamin@gmail.com> - 2013-02-10 19:34 +0000
  Re: Statistics...help with numpy/scipy install Rex Macey <xer0925@gmail.com> - 2013-02-13 18:38 -0800
    Re: Statistics...help with numpy/scipy install Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2013-02-14 00:29 -0500
    Re: Statistics...help with numpy/scipy install Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2013-02-14 05:53 -0500
    Re: Statistics...help with numpy/scipy install Oscar Benjamin <oscar.j.benjamin@gmail.com> - 2013-02-14 11:09 +0000

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