Re: Wkbk/environment Preferences?

["David J. Braden" <dbraden rochester rr com>]

Morten,
>    Oh, kudos to the folks who implemented stdev, var, binomdist, and
>    similar functions: they go far in fixing things within Excel that are
>    still buggy, after all these years. (sheesh, sounds like a song...)
>
> That wasn't really hard.  In fact, at my university we used to teach
> first-year students not to make those mistakes.

I *know* it isn't hard; I just wish the powers-that-be responsible for 
the stat functions had been among your or my students <g>.  BTW, it is 
my (informed) understanding that a lot of that was done purposely by MS 
in the early days to replicate what Lotus 1-2-3 produced; that the 
mistake was intentionally coded in.  I'm hoping that those that can move 
Gnumeric in the right direction on the stuff I posted earlier don't 
adopt the same attitude, namely "the most widely-used package is messing 
up, so let's follow suit".

> We may not have gotten everything right, though.  Do speak up if
> you find something stupid like negative variances.

I will definitely do so.  As I get more familiar with your project and 
that of R, I will be happy to help out with the algorithms as well.

Regards,
Dave