FYI: data sets to check accuracy of stat packages

2001-03-06 Thread EAKIN MARK E
This may have already been discussed but there is web site from the National Institute of Standards that gives datasets for comparing the accuracy of statistics packages. In some cases even SAS did not do well. The URL is www.nist.gov/itl/div898/strd/ Mark Eakin Associate Professor

Re: FYI: data sets to check accuracy of stat packages

2001-03-06 Thread George MacKenzie
SAS has a paper on their website discussing the matter of ill-conditioning and numerical accuracy. http://www.sas.com/rnd/app/papers/papers_da.html -- George MacKenzie Multivariate Models RD SAS = Instructions for joining and

Re: FYI: data sets to check accuracy of stat packages

2001-03-06 Thread Alan Miller
George MacKenzie wrote in message ... SAS has a paper on their website discussing the matter of ill-conditioning and numerical accuracy. http://www.sas.com/rnd/app/papers/papers_da.html -- George MacKenzie Multivariate Models RD SAS The paper refered to indicates that the SAS REG procedure