Compendium.html Helping Hand Statistics and computers are a natural match, and it's not by chance that the ancestor of IBM got its start producing tabulating machines for the US Census Bureau. There is a bewildering array of software available. Fortunately, NIST again comes to the rescue with an online guide to mathematical software. This ranges from complete stand alone programs to individual C sub-procedures that you can integrate into your own programs. What makes this guide really terrific is that you can search the database based on what problem you want to solve and the database will try to find the software that matches your needs.
Governments generate statistics.
Lots of statistics. They frequently form the ground upon which political and socialbattles are fought. Fortunately, this is one of the ways in which the Internet truly does open up democracies, allowing access to the raw numbers instead of the results of the filtering of the media, interest groups and politicians. Both the EU and US offer gateways which allow anyone to mine these huge reserves of information in a relatively painless manner. For past issues of Weekly Websights, please visit our archives.