Jeremy Angolin’s Psychology and Statistics blog has a nice explanation of how to get started with LaTeX, along with quite a few resources.īut if, for now, you want to stick with Microsoft products, you’ll find the Equation Editor a BIG help. It does much more than write equations and would be worth learning if you’re doing some heavy-duty statistical writing.
Truly the best editor for writing mathematical documents that contain equations is LaTeX. So the black italic Times Roman you get by default doesn’t always look pretty on, say, a Powerpoint slide where all the rest of the text is green Calibri. One limitation is that you can’t edit the font or font color. It looks like a fraction surrounded by parentheses, but without the line in the middle. The one statistical notation I have needed and found it unable to do is a Choose function, as in (n choose p). You can easily add fractions, subscripts, even symbols like the little bar over X. Insert–>Object–>Microsoft Equation 3.0 (the exact wording my differ in your version, but it should be close)Īn editor window will pop up. So, to insert a beautiful equation into Word, Powerpoint, or whatever Microsoft application you need, simply go to: She was thrilled at the ease and flexibility of it, so I thought I’d better share this. I just mentioned it to a client the other day. What saved me, years ago, is the Microsoft Equation Editor. 
Or a regression model equation? It’s possible, but it takes forever to subscript all those i’s and change the font of all your B’s to β’s. Have you ever tried to type a complex fraction, like a logit link, using Word, by lining up two rows of type?
0 kommentar(er)
