To all and sundry, near and far, F. Christmas in particular ... --- A. A. Milne Just ignore that second line .... :-) A new package of mine, "hse", has just become available on CRAN. The source package is there; Uwe Ligges has informed me that the Windoze binary has been built so it should appear shortly. I'm sure that the Mac OSX binary will appear in due course. The package provides tools for working with a new distribution for discrete data with finitely many values. I have found this distribution to be useful for handling data to which the "standard" discrete distributions (binomial, Poisson, geometric, ...) do not readily apply. My hope is that others will likewise find the "hse" distribution to be useful. In particular it could have application to survey responses measured on an ordered discrete (e.g. 1 to 7 or 1 to 10) scale. I would of course be grateful for any feedback, comments, criticisms, corrections, etc. cheers, Rolf Turner -- Honorary Research Fellow Department of Statistics University of Auckland Phone: +64-9-373-7599 ext. 88276