# Julia cookbook still relevant? sample statistical analyses sessions?
**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-cookbook-still-relevant-sample-statistical-analyses-sessions/7823
**Category:** General Usage
**Created:** [December 17, 2017, 11:17pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-cookbook-still-relevant-sample-statistical-analyses-sessions/7823 "2017-12-17T23:17:17Z")
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### Author:  [@ivo\_welch](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/ivo_welch)
#### Post date: [December 17, 2017, 11:17pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-cookbook-still-relevant-sample-statistical-analyses-sessions/7823/1 "2017-12-17T23:17:17Z")
[1] the coverage of julia’s cookbook by jalem rohit looks nice, but it is from mid-2016 and I know that julia has recently changed quite a bit. is it still recommendable?
[2] I am looking for a variety of short statistical analysis starter sessions for my students (and myself). as an example, my first task is
```
d <- read.csv( gzfile("a.csv.gz"), sep=",")
print(summary(d))
m <- lm( d[,1] ~ abc, data=d ) ## abc is a column in d
print( coef( m ) )
d <- within(d, r <- resids( m ))
plot( d$abc, d$r )
write.csv( pipe( "bzip -c > a2.csv.gz" ) )
```
I asked questions like this before, but the answers were complex and julia is now so changed that I do not know what the right approach is. (and I don’t want to get my students started doing it wrong; and google still mixes in old julia links aplenty.)
advice appreciated.
regards,
/iaw
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### Author:  [@juliohm](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/juliohm)
#### Post date: [December 18, 2017, 12:36am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-cookbook-still-relevant-sample-statistical-analyses-sessions/7823/2 "2017-12-18T00:36:45Z")
The GLM.jl package may be useful for your use case, their README has a set of examples:
> **[GitHub - JuliaStats/GLM.jl: Generalized linear models in Julia](https://github.com/JuliaStats/GLM.jl)**
>
> Generalized linear models in Julia. Contribute to JuliaStats/GLM.jl development by creating an account on GitHub.
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### Author:  [@Nosferican](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Nosferican)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2017, 4:37am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-cookbook-still-relevant-sample-statistical-analyses-sessions/7823/3 "2017-12-19T04:37:44Z")
Depending on the session, assuming next semester, you could use Julia 0.6.2 and the ecosystem for it. If later than spring or mid way during that semester, I would use Julia 0.7 and the ecosystem for it.
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### Author:  [@ivo\_welch](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/ivo_welch)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2017, 10:45pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-cookbook-still-relevant-sample-statistical-analyses-sessions/7823/4 "2017-12-19T22:45:09Z")
the MFE class will be in Winter 2018, so Jan through Mar. we will leave the choice of version up to our students, but I think we will recommend julia 0.6.2.
pranav bhat (our resident julia expert) and I are creating a wiki, to be public in a week or two at [http://julia.cookbook.tips](http://julia.cookbook.tips), that will collect all sorts of recipes and will, we hope, complement the official docs and forum. We are planning on working on it quite a lot over the next week. I will post a notice here when we have something share-worthy and when we want to solicit questions about what else we should cover.
regards,
/iaw