How about you provide examples rather than tests. Especially useless if the answer is going to surprise me.
On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 10:51 AM, David Martin (Staff) < [email protected]> wrote: > 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 >
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