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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