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Re: idl versus matlab [message #37052 is a reply to message #14970]

Thu, 20 November 2003 09:00

David Fanning
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Registered: August 2001

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Gareth Mottram - RSG writes:

> I have to admit this is a slightly frivolous post, but here goes.
> A guy in my office insists that matlab is better for multivariate stats
> in image analysis than IDL, I doubt whether this is correct but I don't
> have any examples to prove him wrong, or indeed to prove me wrong.
>
> Anyone out there have opinions/comments/examples?

For what it's worth, I'm beginning to like Matlab
a lot. :-)

*Very* elegant math syntax. Does math things VERY
well, including (probably) multivariate stats.
But it's not going to beat IDL for programming
or graphics display anytime soon, I don't think. :-)

Cheers,

David
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