I'll have to perform some simple experiments, like measuring the period and damping of a pendulum, focal length of a lens, …

As a result I will end up with some X, Y data points and need to calculate derivation, means, kovariance and provide a fit for a liniarized function.

It explicitly says that we can use software or self written programs.

I could implement all the statistics formulas on the help sheet in say Python and run it, but that seems like a huge duplication of effort.

Is there software that would assist me with those kind of things?

I currently have:

• Mathematica
• Octave
• xmgrace
• (ROOT)