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Re: calling all "R Statistical Package" gurus

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I would rank R at the top of the list (for this particular problem)
I should add the following qualifier: the above is true for small datasets (like analyzing one event). For larger datasets (like doing world OPR for an entire season's worth of events), not so much.


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Matlab/Octave is a distant third.
Matlab/Octave has good support for sparse matrices to effectively process larger datasets.