I really need to move away from Matlab and do more in R. It’s just the prospect of rewriting years worth of little scripts and functions I use every day that puts me off tbh.
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Were you doing your stats in Matlab?
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It’s what I learned on in undergrad and I never got out of the habit.
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What kind of stats and what kind of undergrad?
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Mostly used it stats modelling, undergrad was maths. It’s pretty handy for machine learning stuff if you avoid the built in toolboxes like the plague and download Netlab instead.
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Still not sure what kind of stats — like is there an equivalent of R's lme4 in Matlab?
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There are built in functions for GLMs and the like if that’s what you mean. I’m very much a novice with R so had to google what Ime4 even was tbh.
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Thanks for the info. I don't use R but it's pretty much the field standard for serious stats modelling of that type in Psych/CogNeuro/etc.. Python is pretty much the standard for other types, esp more ML stuff, in my area (CompCog). Altho many use Matlab, Lisp, C, etc.
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My experience is that there’s nothing you can do in Matlab that you can’t do in R or Python and vice versa. Comes down to preferences and resources (Matlab isn’t cheap).
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Yes, they are Turing complete.
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I am not sure if you know but I have certain fEeLiNgS about Matlab...http://neuroplausible.com/matlab
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I don’t disagree, I use Matlab cos I’m familiar with it and because of the aforementioned library of code. I’d probably try to steer students towards R myself.
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