> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gerry Dizinno) wrote:
> > A while back someone posted a reference to an article (actually a web
> > site that referenced the article) that purported to identify some
> > serious errors associated with the statistical functions of Excel.
> 'On the accuracy of statistical procedures in Microsoft Excel 97'
> McCullough, B.D. and Wilson, B. in Computational Statistics and Data
> Analysis, 28 July 1999, Vol 31 Part 1, Pages 27-37
Just to put this into perspective, as Excel does take an unfair amount of
criticism, McCullough also looked at the statistical accuracy (or
reliability) of SPSS, S-Plus & SAS, packages that are held in high regard,
simply because of their long version history. The two articles are available
online:
http://www.amstat.org/publications/tas/mccull-1.pdf
http://www.amstat.org/publications/tas/mccull.pdf
The results may suprise many people who do not question the accuracy of hese
packages. As McCulloch states, "the reliability of statistical software
cannot be taken for granted"...
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