The R software package
R is a free software package for probabilty and statistics computations.
It is easy to use and yet can do very powerful things. It is widely
used in statistics and worth knowing.
There are versions for all the standard operating
systems (Windoze, Mac and Linux).
The R homepage
You can find info on downloading it at the site above.
You will need R in the first homework set, so download it now.
R on-line
At this site you can input R code and have their server run it. So you can use R without it being
installed on your computer.
R examples
Confidence intervals
Consistency of an estimator
Hypothesis testing - Poisson pop