Re: Christmas Reading?

) and his latest Faster: The Accelaration of Just About Everything, which I've just started. Happy holidays! *** Humberto Barreto [EMAIL PROTECTED] x6315

Re: discrete order statistics applications

distribution (I'm an economist not a statistician -- said as if Bones McCoy from ancient Star Trek fame :-)). Can your code do this? I'd be interested in seeing that . . . *** Humberto Barreto Department of Economics Wabash College Crawfordsville, IN 47933 Phone: 765-361-6315

Re: lin. reg.

to do regression with Excel. Download the file Reg.xls from http://www.wabash.edu/econometrics If you really want a macro, you can use Application.WorksheetFunction(Linest()) to get estimates, SEs, and other LINEST output. Hope that helps, Bert *** Humberto Barreto Department

Re: lin. reg.

cell range with more than one X variable. See the file Reg.xls at http://www.wabash.edu/econometrics *** Humberto Barreto Department of Economics Wabash College Crawfordsville, IN 47933 Phone: 765-361-6315 FAX: 765-361-6277 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW: http://www.wabash.edu

Re: likelihood

ed, then another question would be: how did we get from point A, Fisher's definitions, to point B, today's definitions? Maybe Fisher's defintions were never accepted? Not earth shattering questions, but kinda interesting, don't you think? Yours in Fisherian likelihood and Knightian uncertaint

Quick Etymology of Econometrics

e origin of the word carried a deeper meaning. ******* Humberto Barreto Department of Economics Wabash College Crawfordsville, IN 47933 Phone: 765-361-6315 FAX: 765-361-6277 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW: http://www.wabash.edu/depart/economic/ba

Re: Seeking REAL stats numbers (economy, and mortality)

few years: YearTotal 199436254 199537241 199637494 199737324 199837107 199937140 200037409 Data from NHTSA's Fatality Analysis Reporting System. This is an excellent source for examples for class or just to play around. Check it out at http://www-fars.nhtsa.dot.gov Humberto Barreto x6315

Excel Limitations and Mac Excel 2001 Bug?

a essentially a Double Long for large integer computations) and it works just fine on Mac Excel 2001. Only Double (and Variant) don't work. Please let me know what you find or if you have any explanations for this odd behavior. Thanks! Humberto Barreto x6315

Robust Regression and Excel for Stats

/econexcel/LMSOrigin/Home.htm and take a look at LMS.xls to see what I mean. What do you think? BTW, the file LMSOrigin.xls shows that not even SAS is immune from flaws. There simply is no such thing as perfect software. Prof. Humberto Barreto Department of Economics Wabash College Crawfordsville

RE: Robust Regression and Excel for Stats

to be wary. I would also recommend that you think carefully about the process that generated the data. Why are you worried about outliers? I am sorry that this is not a clean, clear answer. Perhaps others can offer better, more grounded advice. Burble burble . . . :-)) Humberto Barreto [EMAIL