Scientific computing and a tangentially related question

[Oleg Goldshmidt]

"Steve G." <wordz2u at gmail.com> writes:

> 1. Is there any coordinated development of statistical analysis
>    tools that are OSS and run on Linux?

What do you mean by "coordinated development"? You yourself mentioned
R - it is OSS, runs on Linux, has a very developed community, sports
companies that provide Enterprise versions (e.g., Revolution
Analytics). I have not used SPSS for about 20 years or so, but I use R
practically daily.

> 2. Are there any Masters Programs in Israel in the fields of applied
> statistics (biostatistics, epidemiology, medical statistics, social
> statistics, actuarial sciences or demographics)?

Eh, have you tried simple Google searches combining the subjects with
the names of major Israeli universities? Or just browse the
universities' websites - there are just a few major universities in
this country, after all. 

It is easy to find stuff like

https://sites.google.com/site/tausph/departments/department-of-epidemiology-and-preventive-medicine

http://www.math.tau.ac.il/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=8&Itemid=27

at TAU, and I am sure other universities will have something or other
as well.

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Oleg Goldshmidt | pub at goldshmidt.org