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### 89.1 Introduction to stats

Package `stats` contains a set of classical statistical inference and hypothesis testing procedures.

All these functions return an `inference_result` Maxima object which contains the necessary results for population inferences and decision making.

Global variable `stats_numer` controls whether results are given in floating point or symbolic and rational format; its default value is `true` and results are returned in floating point format.

Package `descriptive` contains some utilities to manipulate data structures (lists and matrices); for example, to extract subsamples. It also contains some examples on how to use package `numericalio` to read data from plain text files. See `descriptive` and `numericalio` for more details.

Package `stats` loads packages `descriptive`, `distrib` and `inference_result`.

For comments, bugs or suggestions, please contact the author at

’mario AT edu DOT xunta DOT es’.

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