Re: [R] Ranjan Maitra's comment "Re: Variance is different in R vs. Excel?

2015-02-10 Thread Ranjan Maitra
Thanks! Interesting! Perhaps there was a patch to Excel later on, because otherwise, this does not explain things. Anyway, regardless, good to know that the long-standing issue has been fixed. The title of your e-mail post is amusing! Ranjan On Tue, 10 Feb 2015 18:09:22 -0600 Ronald Wyllys w

Re: [R] Ranjan Maitra's comment "Re: Variance is different in R vs. Excel?

2015-02-10 Thread Ronald Wyllys
FWIW, both Excel 2007 and LibreOffice 4.2 yield the correct variance for the numbers in Ranjan Maitra's HW problem for incoming students in R. Namely, both these programs yield a sample variance of 0.28 (rounded to 10 decimal digits). Ronald Wyllys On 02/10/2015 05:00 AM, r-help-req