Hi Leonard, On Tuesday, 2009-08-25 15:45:42 +0200, Leonard Mada wrote:
> I would therefore stick with the one sample definition, > and adapt only the text to correspond to what actually > the function computes. > > "The p-value is the probability, under the null hypothesis, > of observing a value as extreme or more extreme of the > z-statistic" Probably too long, taking localizations into account. > or shortened: > > "calculates the probability of observing a value as extreme > or more extreme of the z-statistic" > > and (possibly) correcting for the wrong implementation: > > "calculates the probability of observing a value as large > or larger for the z-statistic" Not being a native speaker the difference isn't clear to me. To have this changed we need a decision real soon now. So far then I'd go for "calculates the probability of observing a value as large or larger for the z-statistic" Any objections? Adding that to i90759 to have it documented. Eike -- OOo/SO Calc core developer. Number formatter stricken i18n transpositionizer. SunSign 0x87F8D412 : 2F58 5236 DB02 F335 8304 7D6C 65C9 F9B5 87F8 D412 OpenOffice.org Engineering at Sun: http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS Please don't send personal mail to the e...@sun.com account, which I use for mailing lists only and don't read from outside Sun. Use er...@sun.com Thanks.
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