David, I hope, once finished, you will post a detail account of your findings on EXCEL2000 and Statistics (and suggest better way to use it for statistical analysis), which will definitely benefit many. Thanks. Siddeek
David Heiser wrote: > I have started going through McCullough and Wilson's paper "On the Accuracy > of Statistical Procedures in Microsoft Excel 2000". I have found one error, > and may find more. However I need to put them all together, and that will > take some time. > > My point is that the Excel 2000 "faults" are not that severe when Excel is > used in the intended environment. The NIST tests are pretty severe and > represent primarily "invented" data sets or unusual data fitting situations. > I can see workarounds to bypass some of the Excel limitations. I need > however to test them for validity against the NIST data sets first. Again > this is going to take some time. > > What I intended is to say is, "don't jump to conclusions yer". > > DAHeiser > > ================================================================= > Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the > problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at > http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ > ================================================================= ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ =================================================================
