Monthly Archives: November 2006

Matlab offers a variety of Optimization functions in the Optimization and Statistics Toolboxes. One useful application for students is the Gui interface to nlinfit, called nlintool. This interactive graphical tool can be used for nonlinear least squares regression fitting and … Continue reading →

Spatial statistics is a large collections of tools with different historical developemental settings and results. History aside, one area that has been exploited recently is the class of models for univariate and multivariate hierarchical point-referenced spatial regression models for gaussian … Continue reading →

SAS is known as a large and powerful statistical program. Recently SAS offers access to an add-on PROC called Glimmix. Many years ago this toolset was developed as a user macro and it evolved to the point that SAS has … Continue reading →

Often researchers will need access to functionality that isn’t found in commercial statistics packages. This problem varies quite a bit and is meet with specialized solutions by the statistical community. These solutions are often cutting edge, reflecting new statistical research. … Continue reading →