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GAUSS Basics

Description

The GAUSS Mathematical and Statistical System is a programming environment similar to Matlab, but with greater emphasis on data analysis and data modeling. It is used primarily in the disciplines of economics and engineering.
Highlights: Data analysis and Statistics package.

Availability

GAUSS is licensed software, available on the IBM pSeries systems, but not on the Katana or Linux Clusters. Currently, 4 instances may be run simultaneously.

Using GAUSS

There is one user executable program called tgauss. It provides a command-line interface to the language interpreter, debugger, and help system.

To start an interactive session, type:

    twister% tgauss

To run a GAUSS program called "prog" in your current directory, type:

twister% tgauss -b prog

To run the above program in the p4-long batch queue, type:

twister% bsub -q p4-long tgauss -b prog

Note: GAUSS is NOT multi-threaded so GAUSS jobs should only be submitted to the single processor batch queues.

Additional Help/Documentation

The GAUSS manuals are available in pdf form in /usr/local/gauss/doc. The manuals and additional information can be found at the vendor's web site: www.aptech.com.

A number of other useful links are available at Eric Zivot's GAUSS Resources, particularly Felix Ritchie's guide to Programming in GAUSS.

Document Name: gauss
Author/Maintainer: Michael Dugan
Executable: /usr/local/bin/tgauss
Keywords: gauss, statistics, economics
Machines List: IBM p655, Katana Cluster
Created March 30, 2004; Last Revised March 30, 2004; Last Modified June 2, 2009
URL of this document: http://scv.bu.edu/documentation/software-help/mathematics/gauss.html
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