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Excel is a microsoft product. Microsoft's approach is to take existing concepts
and re-package them. (e.g., MSDOS followed most of the co
"Dennis Roberts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> >This is an interesting discussion, but the line between a spreadsheet and
> >stats package is not so clear-cut these days. If you look at how the
major
> >stats packages have developed over the la
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James Huntington wrote:
> Excel spreadsheet package is still head-and-shoulders above any other
> similar product in terms of ease of u
>rse?
>
>This is an interesting discussion, but the line between a spreadsheet and
>stats package is not so clear-cut these days. If you look at how the major
>stats packages have developed over the last decade, you can see how they
>have copied more and more features from Excel. In fact almost a
"Dennis Roberts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> i don't know the answer to this but ... i have a general question with
> regards to using spreadsheets for stat analysis
>
> why? ... why do we not help our students and encourage our students to u
