Statistics Examples

Some useful examples can be found at Dr. Hockings STAT 636 webpage.

Examples of Statistical Computing, including R and SAS and SPLUS.

Gnuplot

Not So Frequently Asked Questions is a large and accessible set of examples for gnuplot.

Data Sets

UCI Machine Learning Repository has a wide variety of popular data sets and lists of publications that have used those data sets.

Statistics Websites

StatSoft Electronic Statistics Textbook

Social Research Methods Knowledge Base

Statistics Solutions

Scipy and NumPy Documentation

Python has modules several modules, Scipy and NumPy, that offer very similar functionality to the functions offered by Matlab. (This is not a conclusive list of math/science related Python modules, but this is a good place to start.)

N.B. I found that to use scipy.linalg.eig(A), I needed to say: import scipy; from scipy import linalg. That did the old tricking.

The Tentative NumPy Tutorial may be found here.

NumPy for Matlab users may be found here.