Matlab

• MathWorks
• Optimization Toolbox
• Student Version of Matlab

GNU Octave

• Octave: An open source MatLab clone
• GNU Octave: A Beginner's Guide, by Jesper Schmidt Hansen

MicroSoft Solver tool in Excel

• How to open Excel and load the Solver tool.
• How to use Solver to solve linear programs, by Marie-Laure Bougnol.
• A linear programming tutorial using Solver, by Ziggy MacDonald, CHEER, Virtual Edition, Vol. 9, Issue 3, 1995.

The R Project for Statistical Computing

• R
• An R primer
• An Introduction to Probability and Statistics Using R, by G. Jay Kerns

Mathematics Department

University of Washington