Amen to that.

the 'problems' that Excel has with statistics seems to appear with
various types of regression on less-than-well-cornformed data.  any
regression analysis deserves as many tests of 'legitimacy,' robustness
etc. as you can give it.  SPSS is one way to get a heck of a lot more
such tests than Excel.

"Arthur J. Kendall" wrote:
> 
> SPSS is extremely user friendly, numerically stable, widely available, etc.
> 
> If I were you, I would rerun the whole analysis in SPSS.  Statistics in Excel
> are widely known to have problems.
> 
> Maja wrote:
> 
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > I'm working on some questions where I have to run several regressions and
> > I'm using excel.  Now I have to do auxiliary regressions, but it looks as if
> > I couldn't do that on excel.  Does anyone know if it is possible to do
> > auxiliary regressions on excel and if not which program is the best??
> >
> > Thanks a lot.
> >
> > Marijana
> 
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