A quick test for you. Get your favourite package of choice to print the value of Pi. How many decimal places are actually correct? The number may surprise you.
..d Dr David Martin Lecturer in Bioinformatics College of Life Sciences University of Dundee ________________________________________ From: Discuss <[email protected]> on behalf of Waldman, Simon <[email protected]> Sent: 05 May 2016 15:43 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Discuss] Word and PowerPoint "all wrong"? > -----Original Message----- > From: Matthew Brett [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: 05 May 2016 15:33 > To: Waldman, Simon <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Discuss] Word and PowerPoint "all wrong"? > > This is a list of errors in statistical calculations in Excel, with citations: > > http://statisticalengineering.com/Weibull/excel.html Thank you! While of course I was aware that Excel makes it easy to screw up in non-reproducible ways, I didn't know that it is actually wrong on some statistical calculations. Now I do :-) _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org The University of Dundee is a registered Scottish Charity, No: SC015096 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org
