Re: Software Citation for Gnumeric

[Hal Ashburner <hala cse unsw edu au>]

On Sun, 2007-08-05 at 19:06 +0800, Gideon Butalid wrote:
> I am valuing the employee stock options of the company I am working in. I
> use both the Generalized Black-Scholes and a particular Excel Addin for
> customized binomial lattices. I specifically used R (fOptions package) and
> Gnumeric (Black-Scholes function) to compute for a naive Black-Scholes
> valuation.
>
> I want to cite Gnumeric and the other software resources I used in the
> formal document I am working on.
>
> R provides the following citation: citation() in R prompt
>
>   R Development Core Team (2006). R: A language and environment for
>   statistical computing. R Foundation for Statistical Computing,
>   Vienna, Austria. ISBN 3-900051-07-0, URL http://www.R-project.org.
>
> Is there something similar for Gnumeric?
> What is the proper way to cite Gnumeric as a software resource for a study
> or analysis I am working on.
>
> I tried to fill up the data above using info from the Gnumeric website, but
> it's insufficient.
>
> Thanks in advance.

I wrote the options code you're using there. I don't mind either way
whether you cite me or not. If you please Jody, Morten & the rest of the
dev team, that would be the right thing to do, IMHO.
Guys, you have thoughts?

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Kind regards,
Hal Ashburner