The most curious thing is to read all these information AGAINST Excel, to know people from Statistics Departments who sent letters to Microsoft indicating lots of problems in the past.... but... some improvements never happen...
We know that there are 348579348 programs to be used but Excel is inside the house of any student now !!!! Voltolini ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Prof. Dr. J. C. VOLTOLINI Grupo de Estudos em Ecologia de Mamiferos (ECOMAM) Universidade de Taubate - Departamento de Biologia Taubate, SP. 12030-010. E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website do ECOMAM: http://jcvoltol.sites.uol.com.br/ Fotos de Cursos: http://jcvoltol.fotoblog.uol.com.br/ Currículo Lattes: http://lattes.cnpq.br/buscaoperacional/ Fotos Artísticas: http://voltolini.fotos.net.br/texturas ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Siamo tutti angeli con un'ala e possiamo volare soltanto se ciabbracciamo" ----- Original Message ----- From: "Patrick Foley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2006 5:29 PM Subject: Re: excell bias/poptools > Google "excel flaws" > > You get stuff like this > http://gcrc.ucsd.edu/biostatistics/Excel.pdf#search=%22EXCEL%20STATISTICAL%20FLAWS%22 > > Patrick Foley > > http://gcrc.ucsd.edu/biostatistics/Excel.pdf#search=%22EXCEL%20STATISTICAL%20FLAWS%22 > > Steve Brewer wrote: >> I've heard numerous complaints about calculation >> errors by Excel, but rarely are these complaints >> accompanied by specific examples. I have used >> Excel for matrix calculations and have not >> encountered any problems. I don't dispute the >> existence of these errors, but I would like to >> see specific examples, so I can check for myself. >> >> Thanks, >> >> Steve Brewer >> >> >> >> At 7:16 AM -0700 9/12/06, Abraham de Alba wrote: >> >>> Dear Ecologgers, >>> >>> Do wonder if said program POPTOOLS does take into >>> account several calculating biases that Excell, >>> excells in. Or if the objetive is only for >>> demostration purposes, didactic demostration, etc ??? >>> >>> I myself use excell only for simple data manipulation >>> on excell, nothing else. >>> >>> <P>Abraham de Alba Avila</P> >>> <P>Terrestrial Plant Ecology</P> >>> <P>INIFAP-Ags</P> >>> <P>ÝAp. postal 20,</P> >>> <P>ÝPabellÛn Arteaga, 20660</P> >>> <P>ÝAguascalientes, MEXICO</P> >>> <P>ÝTel: (465) 95-801-67, & 801-86 ext. 118, FAX ext 102 >>> alternate: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> cel: 449-157-7070</P> >>> >>> __________________________________________________ >>> Do You Yahoo!? >>> Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around >>> http://mail.yahoo.com >>> >> >> >>
