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PyMVPA for Matlab Users

If you are coming from Matlab, you will soon notice a lot of similarities between Matlab and Python (besides the huge advantages of Python over Matlab). For an easy transition you might want to have a look at a basic comparison of Matlab and NumPy.

It would be nice to have some guidelines on how to use PyMVPA for users who are already familiar with the Matlab MVPA toolbox. If you are using both packages and could compile a few tips, your contribution would be most welcome.

A recent paper by Jurica and van Leeuwen (2009) describes an open-source MATLAB®-to-Python compiler which might be a very useful tool to migrate a substantial amount of Matlab-based source code to Python and therefore also aids the migration of developers from Matlab to the new “general open-source lingua franca for scientific computation”.