Statistics in Julia good enough for my course?

This is very basic frequentist statistics, for which the packages have been mature for years.

You may want to pay attention to calling conventions though, some functions might work differently — eg use the standard deviation instead of the variance, and similar. Better make sure you understand the theory and check the docs. ANOVA may be a tricky point, since they are so many subtly different ways to do it.

FWIW, as much as I like Julia, I would just stick to the language used by the course and use the time I save to do a fun project in Julia. It is unlikely that there will be a lot of programming involved at this level, the computer should just serve as a sophisticated calculator and plotting tool.

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