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
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> > 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 :-)
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