--- Rolf Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 28/08/2007, at 7:16 PM, J Dougherty wrote: > > <snip> > > > PS, I quit using Excel for most important work > after it returned a > > negative > > variance on some data I was collecting descriptive > statistics on. > > Those of you who have not seen it should have a look > at Jonathan > Cryer's commentary > on Excel, available at the URL: > > http://www.stat.uiowa.edu/~jcryer/JSMTalk2001.pdf > > Executive summary: Friends don't let friends use > Excel for statistics. > > cheers, > > Rolf Turner
And perhaps beware of them at any time? They're great tools but alltooften are miss-used. http://www.eusprig.org/ ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
