Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
The practicals in this book
The computer practicals need publicly available software, as described here. Programs and data files specific to these practicals are available on the website http://publishing.cambridge.org/resources/0521819652. They were developed and run on a linux operating system and should run on any unix system with a FORTRAN compiler.
The pitsa program
The pitsa program is used for the time series practicals in Part I. It was written by Frank Scherbaum and, at the time of writing, is available on the web at http://lbutler.geo.uni-potsdam.de/service.htm. Scherbaum's (1996) book Of Poles and Zeros makes extensive use of pitsa. Both program and book have been written for seismologists, but both are applicable to other subjects.
octave
octave is now supported by the Free Software Foundation and is freely available from www.octave.org. It comes packaged with most linux systems. It closely resembles the commercial package Matlab, which the student may use instead if preferred because there are virtually no differences (apart from graphics) at the simple level used in this book.
gnuplot
gnuplot is also supported by the Free Software Foundation and is available from www.gnuplot.info
Other files
At the time of writing, other files used in this book may be freely downloaded from the website http://publishing.cambridge.org/resources/0521819652.
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