Overview of the stats Package
Calling Sequence
Description
List of stats Package Commands
stats[command](arguments)
command(arguments)
Important: The stats package has been deprecated. Use the superseding package Statistics instead.
Each command in the stats package can be accessed by using either the long form or the short form of the command name in the command calling sequence.
The stats package provides data analysis functions, such as various means and quantiles, plotting functions, such as histograms and scatter plots, and data manipulation functions, such as weighted moving average and standard scores. Also available are least square fit, random number generation, analysis of variance (one way), data import from a file and numerical evaluation of statistical distributions.
The following is a list of available commands.
importdata
Import data from a file
The following is a list of available subpackages.
anova
Analysis of variance.
describe
Data analysis functions.
fit
Linear Regression.
random
Random number generators according to specified distributions.
statevalf
Numerical evaluation of distributions.
statplots
Plotting functions.
transform
Data manipulation functions.
To display the help page for a particular stats command, see Getting Help with a Command in a Package.
Additional information is available on the following topics.
data
Representation of data.
distributions
The various distributions supported by stats.
To display the help page for a particular stats topic, see stats[topic].
See Also
Statistics
UsingPackages
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