🚀 go-pugleaf

I need a statistical package, and I'd rather not use
Reed College's VAX, because it's hard to get on at
certain times of the year.  Something that would run
on a Mac Plus with a hard drive would be easier to
deal with.  I have no idea what's out there.

Will I need to buy a database package too?  Have there
been any articles in the magazines about this?

In terms of projects, the biggest I'll be doing is a
survey of the ~1000 people who'll be pledging money
to KBOO-FM this March.  Asking each listener what
shows they listen to regularly (KBOO has about 50 or
60 shows each week), what they listen to occasionally.
Tabulate this data and then analyze what times of
the day are most popular and see if there's an unpopular
show on at a popular time.  See whether the same people
are listening to certain shows, maybe put them on the
same night.  Analyze regarding $ pledged, age, sex, income,
maybe even race (how many non-Hispanics listen to the
Hispanic shows?  Whites listening to soul?  Native
Americans listening to Western swing...)
Some questions regarding possible new shows to judge
listener interest.

In other words, it's big and messy.  Any Reedies want to
help?  Maybe a thesis topic in statistics?  I'll post
this again closer to when I'll be doing the survey.
-- 
"I'm afraid I've finally become what I had merely
intended to seem." -Wilhelm von Humboldt, 1831
Dave Kehoe  tektronix!reed!kehoe  (503) 230-9454