Re: Project idea: Calc for Statistics

2012-12-14 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 8:55 AM, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote: > > On 12/06/2012 12:12 PM, Rob Weir wrote: >> >> >> So two entirely different questions: >> >> 1) Improving the accuracy the statistical (and other numerical >> methods) we already have. >> >> 2) Extending the range of numerical meth

Re: Project idea: Calc for Statistics

2012-12-14 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 12/06/2012 12:12 PM, Rob Weir wrote: So two entirely different questions: 1) Improving the accuracy the statistical (and other numerical methods) we already have. 2) Extending the range of numerical methods we provide out-of-the-box My first thought when I read this was adding extended p

Re: Project idea: Calc for Statistics

2012-12-06 Thread Pedro Giffuni
Hi Regina; >_ > From: Regina Henschel > >Hi Pedro, > >Pedro Giffuni schrieb: >> Hi guys; >> >> FWIW, while I was playing with the new random number generator I went >> around looking for some references and I found this paper from the Journal >> of Statistical Software (2010)

Re: Project idea: Calc for Statistics

2012-12-06 Thread Regina Henschel
Hi Pedro, Pedro Giffuni schrieb: Hi guys; FWIW, while I was playing with the new random number generator I went around looking for some references and I found this paper from the Journal of Statistical Software (2010) titled "On the Numerical Accuracy of Spreadsheets": http://www.jstatsoft.org

Re: Project idea: Calc for Statistics

2012-12-06 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 10:57 AM, Pedro Giffuni wrote: > Hi guys; > > FWIW, while I was playing with the new random number generator I went > around looking for some references and I found this paper from the Journal > of Statistical Software (2010) titled "On the Numerical Accuracy of > Spreadshee

Re: Project idea: Calc for Statistics

2012-12-06 Thread Tsutomu Uchino
Hi, I found the following paper several weeks ago in [1] (written in Japanese) that descrives about the paper that Pedro mentioned. "On the accuracy of statistical procedures in Microsoft Excel 2010", Submitted but rejected, January 2012 http://homepages.ulb.ac.be/~gmelard/Recherche.htm And I ha