Best/Simplest Calculator for Computing Statistics

jbischke · August 30th, 2003, 9:56 pm

This might be a little off-base but I figured if anyone would know the answer it would be the crew here:I'm looking for a relatively inexpensive and easy to use calculator that would be effective for determining the following information:-Standard Deviation-Variance-Probabilities-Confidence intervals for population mean and variance from sample statistics-p-values for hypotheses about population mean from sample data-Simple Regressionetc.If anyone knows of what the best calculator would, please feel free to share.

tomo · September 3rd, 2003, 8:00 am

Use R which is a statistical package that can be downloaded for free from the web. (http://www.r-project.org/) It is closely related to S+. It's not quite as user friendly as S+ (fewer menus) but there is plenty of documentation to help and a very active user group.T

MikeM · September 3rd, 2003, 12:27 pm

I assume you mean a physical calculator and not a software one?I'm not sure if it does regression, but as far as simple financial calculators go, the BA II Plus from Texas Instruments is really nice. Unlike many other financial calculators it does not use reverse-Polish notation (big plus as far as I am concerned).