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
>
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