Re: regression in AppleWorks 6.2.4?

[Bernard Cleyet <anngeorg@PACBELL.NET>]

 I am a big fan of Vernier's Graphical
Analysis, because it is so easy to use, so what I usually do is
generate data in the spreadsheet and then import it into GA where it
is trivially easy to do any sort of regression or curve fit. I took a
workshop at Boise on using spreadsheets, but it was based on Excel,
which may still be the most powerful spreadsheet around.


I'm also a user of GA  (& logger pro w/ a lab pro and ULI).

However!, it doesn't "do" Chi-squaare, so for the Modern Phys. lab. I use
Kaleidograph.

bc

Hugh Haskell wrote:

> At 17:04 -0400 8/19/02, Joe Heafner wrote:
> > I'm a recent (18 May) convert to the Mac platform. Is there no way
> > to do linear regression under AppleWorks' spreadsheet? Hugh?
> >
> > Last evening I was putting together a vector assignment. In less
> > than one hour, I was able to create my document and drawings in
> > AppleWorks, convert them to PDF with Adobe Acrobat (rather than OS
> > X's native PDF generation, I created PS files and distilled them to
> > PDF), and print them out. The productivity factor is simply better
> > on a Mac. TeXShop provides a superb LaTeX environment on Mac OS X
> > too.
> I'm happy to hear that you are having good Mac experiences. Sounds
> like you are doing things I have never even thought of. WRT linear
> regression on Appleworks, I have to plead ignorance. I'm not a big
> user of spreadsheets for that kind of work. I suspect that you can,
> but I haven't looked into it. I am a big fan of Vernier's Graphical
> Analysis, because it is so easy to use, so what I usually do is
> generate data in the spreadsheet and then import it into GA where it
> is trivially easy to do any sort of regression or curve fit. I took a

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