Excel 2007 Multiplication Bug
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/24/2339203
Forwardng below a message from the r-help mailing list which gives many
links on why Excel is a terrible thing to use for statistical work.
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From: John Kane [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Eleni Rapsomaniki [EMAIL PROTECTED],
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 07:56:09 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Re: [R] Who uses R?
--- Eleni Rapsomaniki
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dear R users,
I have started work in a Statistics government
department and I am trying to
convince my bosses to install R on our computers (I
can't do proper stats in
Excel!!).
I would be really grateful for any advice on this.
Also suggestions on arguments
I could use to persuade them that R is so much
better than Excel would be very
much appreciated.
Many Thanks
Eleni Rapsomaniki
Here are some of the arguments for not using Excel (
other spread sheets) for statistical analysis.
Problems With Using Microsoft Excel for Statistics
Microsoft Excel for Statistics
http://www.cs.uiowa.edu/~jcryer/JSMTalk2001.pdf
Spread sheet addiction
http://www.burns-stat.com/pages/Tutor/spreadsheet_addiction.html
Using Excel for survey analysis ( by J. Cryer)
http://www.audiencedialogue.org/excel1.html
Is Microsoft Excel an Adequate Statistics Package?
http://www.practicalstats.com/Pages/excelstats.html
Use of Excel for Statistical Analysis
http://www.agresearch.co.nz/Science/Statistics/exceluse1.htm
Should Microsoft Excel Software Be Used For
Statistical Analysis Or Graphics? ( J. Cryer)
http://gcrc.ucsd.edu/biostatistics/Excel.pdf
Statistical analysis using Microsoft Excel
http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~jsimonof/classes/1305/pdf/excelreg.pdf
Statistical flaws in Excel
http://www.mis.coventry.ac.uk/~nhunt/pottel.pdf
NOTE X: USE OF EXCEL IN STATISTICS COURSES AND
LABORATORIES - SOME PROS AND CONS
http://www.daheiser.info/excel/notes/notex.pdf
Using Excel for Statistics :Tips and Warnings
http://www.reading.ac.uk/ssc/publications/guides/xfs.pdf
Doing statistics with a speadsheet -Perhaps not a good
idea? (J. Kane)
http://groups.google.ca/group/sci.stat.edu/browse_thread/thread/b2e6def39c6b8ef4/1f6bbe4e398a1e0d?q=John+Kane+Excelrnum=1#1f6bbe4e398a1e0d
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