Summary of New Features in Mathematica 8 (Mathematica Guide)

Clean Up Data Imported from a Website (Mathematica How To)

The connectivity and data-processing capabilities of Mathematica make it ideal for importing and analyzing data displayed on a website. In most cases, this is relatively ...

AndersonDarlingTest (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

AndersonDarlingTest[data] tests whether data is normally distributed using the Anderson\[Dash]Darling test.AndersonDarlingTest[data, dist] tests whether data is distributed ...

Arrow (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

Arrow[{pt_1, pt_2}] is a graphics primitive that represents an arrow from pt_1 to pt_2.Arrow[{pt_1, pt_2}, s] represents an arrow with its ends set back from pt_1 and pt_2 by ...

BezierCurve (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

BezierCurve[{pt_1, pt_2, ...}] is a graphics primitive that represents a Bézier curve with control points pt_i.

CityData (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

CityData["name", " property"] gives the value of the specified property for the city with the specified name.CityData["name"] gives a list of the full specifications of ...

FindMaximum (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

FindMaximum[f, x] searches for a local maximum in f, starting from an automatically selected point.FindMaximum[f, {x, x_0}] searches for a local maximum in f, starting from ...

FindMinimum (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

FindMinimum[f, x] searches for a local minimum in f, starting from an automatically selected point.FindMinimum[f, {x, x_0}] searches for a local minimum in f, starting from ...

LayeredGraphPlot (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

LayeredGraphPlot[{v i 1 -> v j 1, v i 2 -> v j 2, ...}] generates a layered plot of the graph in which vertex v_ik is connected to vertex v_jk.LayeredGraphPlot[{{v i 1 -> v j ...

MannWhitneyTest (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

MannWhitneyTest[{data_1, data_2}] tests whether the medians of data_1 and data_2 are equal.MannWhitneyTest[dspec, \[Mu]_0] tests the median difference against ...