Maple makes this quite easy. Further documentation for Maple is available at Maple at MIT Maple on Athena Athena Consulting Maple Stock Answers . These notes consider an example that discusses only a small fraction of what Xess can do. The file for that example is in Simple Linear Regression . A somewhat simpler example, from 18.02, is available from that page, Xess for 18.02 .
Online help is available at Xess Help on Athena .
Comments and suggestions , especially corrections of errors of all degrees, are always welcome.