I would like to know if the student license (69 €) expire after a year of installation and what kind of toolboxes are best for my research?.

I need to program numerical model with differential equation, climatic dataset, cost optimization, probabilities and statistics. Which one is the best package for do this programming? Is enough the student license offer by 69 €? I want to buy but I am not sure about the capabilities and the license time of the software. Could someone help me with this? Many thanks in advance!

Answer 1

[Steven Lord]

For the license term, see the Student section of this FAQ.

For the topics you discussed:

• MATLAB contains functions to solve differential equations.
• I'm not completely sure what you want to do with your climate datasets. The functions in MATLAB for importing data should be able to handle your data sets with a little work, though other products (specifically Mapping Toolbox) contain functions designed to import data in some common geographical formats. Depending on how your data is stored, using the functions from Mapping Toolbox may save you some programming work.
• We have several products for optimizing various types of functions. Two of the main ones are Optimization Toolbox and Global Optimization Toolbox.
• MATLAB itself contains some functions for computing probabilities and basic statistics, but if you want more specialized statistical capabilities look at Statistics and Machine Learning Toolbox.

I encourage you to look at the documentation for those products and the examples to determine which ones look like they contain functionality you'll need or want.

[Pablo Benítez]

Many thanks Steven! It was helpful..! Cheers!