At 11:37 PM 11/29/99 -0500, Bob Hayden wrote:
>
>Someone found another bug in Excel's statistics routines. Someone
>else came up with a clever alternative. What you have to think about
>is all the bugs you have not noticed yet. Anybody can do statistic
>with Minitab, but you need a Ph.D. in statistics to (safely) do
>statistics with Excel. The LAST people in the world who should be
>using Excel for statistics are beginners.
of course, on the OTHER side of the coin ... the procedure for RANK in
minitab (for example) either ranks things correctly or bassackwards (that
is ... RANK AWFUL) .... since big numbers have big ranks assigned ... now,
if you are ranking average golf strokes per round over the year for pro
golfers, that is good but, if you are ranking high school cumulative gpas
for seniors, that is not.
thus, EVEN in stat packages, one needs to UNDERSTAND what one is doing
inorder to use the package correctly ... most packages give tons of output
but, without the proper INput understanding, it is just output.
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