(maxima.info)Introduction to stats

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83.1 Introduction to stats
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Package 'stats' contains a set of classical statistical inference and
hypothesis testing procedures.

   All these functions return an 'inference_result' Maxima object which
contains the necessary results for population inferences and decision
making.

   Global variable 'stats_numer' controls whether results are given in
floating point or symbolic and rational format; its default value is
'true' and results are returned in floating point format.

   Package 'descriptive' contains some utilities to manipulate data
structures (lists and matrices); for example, to extract subsamples.  It
also contains some examples on how to use package 'numericalio' to read
data from plain text files.  See 'descriptive' and 'numericalio' for
more details.

   Package 'stats' loads packages 'descriptive', 'distrib' and
'inference_result'.

   For comments, bugs or suggestions, please contact the author at

   <'mario AT edu DOT xunta DOT es'>.