> Excel 2007 Multiplication Bug > http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/24/2339203
Forwardng below a message from the r-help mailing list which gives many links on why Excel is a terrible thing to use for statistical work. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: John Kane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Eleni Rapsomaniki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 07:56:09 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: [R] Who uses R? --- Eleni Rapsomaniki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear R users, > > I have started work in a Statistics government > department and I am trying to > convince my bosses to install R on our computers (I > can't do proper stats in > Excel!!). > I would be really grateful for any advice on this. > Also suggestions on arguments > I could use to persuade them that R is so much > better than Excel would be very > much appreciated. > > Many Thanks > Eleni Rapsomaniki Here are some of the arguments for not using Excel (& other spread sheets) for statistical analysis. Problems With Using Microsoft Excel for Statistics Microsoft Excel for Statistics http://www.cs.uiowa.edu/~jcryer/JSMTalk2001.pdf Spread sheet addiction http://www.burns-stat.com/pages/Tutor/spreadsheet_addiction.html Using Excel for survey analysis ( by J. Cryer) http://www.audiencedialogue.org/excel1.html Is Microsoft Excel an Adequate Statistics Package? http://www.practicalstats.com/Pages/excelstats.html Use of Excel for Statistical Analysis http://www.agresearch.co.nz/Science/Statistics/exceluse1.htm Should Microsoft Excel Software Be Used For Statistical Analysis Or Graphics? ( J. Cryer) http://gcrc.ucsd.edu/biostatistics/Excel.pdf Statistical analysis using Microsoft Excel http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~jsimonof/classes/1305/pdf/excelreg.pdf Statistical flaws in Excel http://www.mis.coventry.ac.uk/~nhunt/pottel.pdf NOTE X: USE OF EXCEL IN STATISTICS COURSES AND LABORATORIES - SOME PROS AND CONS http://www.daheiser.info/excel/notes/notex.pdf Using Excel for Statistics :Tips and Warnings http://www.reading.ac.uk/ssc/publications/guides/xfs.pdf Doing statistics with a speadsheet -Perhaps not a good idea? (J. Kane) http://groups.google.ca/group/sci.stat.edu/browse_thread/thread/b2e6def39c6b8ef4/1f6bbe4e398a1e0d?q=John+Kane+Excel&rnum=1#1f6bbe4e398a1e0d ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html<http://www.r-project.org/posting-guide.html> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Next Event: http://freed.in - September 28-29, 2007 Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
