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While this is true, it seems as though Matlab is the tool used for her work at her laboratory, she needs to join an already going project.
by DrorY 14y ago
While this is true, it seems as though Matlab is the tool used for her work at her laboratory, she needs to join an already going project.
- lutusp 14y agoAh, too bad. Matlab his a steeper learning curve than Python.
- DrorY 14y agoyeah, I think it's the major reason for her fearing this field
- lutusp 14y agoFor what it's worth, if she takes the time to learn how to use these math tools -- and learns the math itself -- she will place herself in a powerful position with respect to future research work, just because so few people bother to acquire a solid grounding in analysis. I would offer her every encouragement to take the time and absorb the basics of both programming and math. At the moment, a grounding in these topics is essential, and in the future, it will be even more of a necessity than it is now.
- defrost 14y agoIf she hasn't done it already or else if she's forgotten it would be a good idea to sit in on a first year linear algebra and or statistics class. Matlab (and/or numpy / sage / any of the "math" packages) work best performing operations on vectors and matrices of data (long strings of values / grids & cubes (&hyper cubes) of values ). Expanding on the "little mathematics background" is more important than the "no matlab" issue, one follows from the other. If she's headed into epidemiology and other such areas then make sure she's read "How To Lie With Statistics" at the very least.