I was going to recommend R, the first item referenced in the Stack Overflow link that Shlomi posted. It does all manner of statistical analysis and is pretty darn fast too. -tim On March 25, 2015, Shlomi Fish wrote: > Hi Jude [and all], > > On Wed, 25 Mar 2015 07:37:28 -0400 (EDT) > Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > It's for command line users and you pass it tab delimited text > > files and ask it to do statistical calculations on the contents > > of those files. I tried doing standard deviations with emacs and > > org-mode and couldn't figure out how to make that happen so it's > > nice that datamash works. > > There's also stdev by Tom Christiansen: > > * > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9789806/command-line-utility-to-print-statistics-of-numbers-in-linux > > * > https://bitbucket.org/shlomif/shlomif-computer-settings/src/04cdfe5b0eee641885bd30fd5c891dd6dfb7f1d8/shlomif-settings/home-bin-executables/bin/stdev?at=default > > > Command line users of linux on many distributions have been > > restricted to sc or variants and teapot for spreadsheets and > > those can't do this kind of work. psql and mysql can't do > > standard deviations either. > > psql can: > > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/functions-aggregate.html > > See "stddev_samp" and "stddev_pop" . > > > php may be a > > solution, but that involves learning another language. > > PHP for command-line work? That sounds wrong (not that PHP is a > good language even for writing server-side web code). Perhaps use > Perl, Python, Ruby, Lua, Awk, etc. or Something like R. I should > note that I'm maintaining this Perl 5/CPAN module for some basic > statistical calculations: > > https://metacpan.org/release/Statistics-Descriptive > > There are plenty of others like that for Perl and similar languages > and learning a language like that is useful for many other > use-cases. > > Regards, > > Shlomi Fish > > -- > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ > Emma Watson Factoids - http://shlom.in/emwatson-facts > > There is no IGLU Cabal! Home‐made Cabals eventually superseded the > power and influence of the original IGLU Cabal, which was > considered a cutting edge development at its time. > > Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - > http://shlom.in/reply . > > _______________________________________________ > Blinux-list mailing list > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list