[lug] Autocorrelation functions?

[Ed Hill]

Hi Wade,

I use MatLAB routinely for covariances, etc.  Its a good package
and has worked well on Linux for many years (am currently running
MatLAB R12 on Red Hat 7.2).  In fact, its one of the few closed-
source tools that I use frequently.  The downside is the price.
For academics, its a min of $500 for the basic package plus about
$250+ for each additional "toolbox".  And more for commercial
entities.

There are open-source programs (eg: Octave http://www.octave.org/)
that are very similar to MatLAB in both syntax and computational
capabilities and have some graphing capabilities.  You might want
to try them first.

hth,
Ed

ps - You can get student versions of MatLAB in most university
      bookstores (inc. Mines) for about $100.


J. Wayde Allen wrote:

> I'm needing to compute the autocorrelation of a data set.  Does anyone
> have a software package or tool that they could recommend that runs under
> Linux?
> 



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