On 14/11/2015 17:43, Harvey Nimmo wrote: >> ^1: More than one researcher has argued that The Human Genome Project was a complete waste of money, time, and effort, > It would be interesting to have some references for this claim
Which claim: * That researchers called the Human Genome Project a waste of money, time, etc; * That Excel destroys data by silent transformation; * Something else; Regardless, here are some pages that discuss known errors in using spreadsheets: * http://panko.shidler.hawaii.edu/SSR/Mypapers/whatknow.htm; * http://www.eusprig.org/horror-stories.htm; * http://www.eusprig.org/stories.htm * http://www.strategy-at-risk.com/2009/03/03/the-risk-of-spreadsheet-errors/; * http://www.excellentones.com/resources/spreadsheet-mistakes.html; * http://www.pages.drexel.edu/~bdm25/excel2007.pdf * http://andrewgelman.com/2013/04/16/memo-to-reinhart-and-rogoff-i-think-its-best-to-admit-your-errors-and-go-on-from-there/ Doing a cut and paste from a /. about the deficits of spreadsheets in statistical analysis. author = {Yalta, A.T.}, title = {The accuracy of statistical distributions in Microsoft® Excel 2007}, journal = {Computational Statistics and Data Analysis}, author = {B.D. McCullough and David A. Heiser}, title = {On the accuracy of statistical procedures in Microsoft Excel 2007}, journal = {Computational Statistics \& Data Analysis}, author = {B.D. McCullough}, title = {Special section on Microsoft Excel 2007}, journal = {Computational Statistics \& Data Analysis}, author = {Altman,Micah and McDonald,Michaell P.}, title = {Choosing Reliable Statistical Software}, journal = {PS: Political Science \& Politics}, author = {B. D. McCullough and Berry Wilson}, title = {On the accuracy of statistical procedures in Microsoft Excel 97}, journal = {Computational Statistics \& Data Analysis}, And for a fun read, http://www2.odn.ne.jp/~cbl97790/kakikataJO.htm jonathon -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
