Chapter 2
Materials and Methods
This chapter will present the materials and methods applied in the work leading
to this thesis.
The field of study, computer science, influences the choice of
materials and methods
2.1
Materials
Software for Data Analysis has been used to investigate data from Classification
and Simulation. Presentation software has been used to create graphics for pub-
lications and the thesis as well as presentations. Programming software has been
used to implement ideas presented in this thesis. Word Processing has been used
to write this thesis, its publications and related reports.
Classification - libSVM, WEKA and IncRidge
Data Analysis - Minitab, Excel, R/RPy and SigmaPlot
Presentation - Visio, Illustrator, PowerPoint and FoilTeX
Programming - Python, C/C++, Java, Perl and PHP
Simulation - Zereal
Word Processing - PDFLatex and Word
Hardware
Desktop - 1GB RAM, 1.4GHz CPU, MS Win XP