I would just like to add a comment to this thread that a good reason
to use R is that it's so ***EASY*** to use! You can get R to do what
***you*** want.
E.g. I want to set my students an exercise in which they simulate a
data set from a certain distribution (using the inverse probability
transform), plot a histogram of the resulting data on a density scale,
and then superimpose a graph of the probability density function.
The class I am teaching uses Minitab (which is a pretty good package,
but ....). The last item --- superimpose a graph --- CANNOT be done
in Minitab. Fitted densities from a list specified by Minitab can be
superimposed, but not a density that you have specified which is off
that list. It's incredibly frustrating.
In R, of course, it's so easy that falling off a log is difficult
by comparison.
cheers,
Rolf Turner
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