search for: knuesel

...Rau at demogr.mpg.de> > To: 'Spencer Graves' <spencer.graves at PDF.COM>, Jose Mar?a Fedriani > Laffitte <fedriani at ebd.csic.es> > CC: s-news at lists.biostat.wustl.edu > > Dear all, > > in relation to your question, the following working paper of Leo Knuesel, > University of Munich, might be of interest: > "On the Accuracy of Statistical Distributions in S-Plus for Windows > (1999)" > You can download the paper from (pdf-Format, 45k): > http://www.stat.uni-muenchen.de/~knuesel/elv/accuracy.html > > Best, > Roland >...

...' <spencer.graves at PDF.COM>, Jose Mar?a Fedriani > >>Laffitte <fedriani at ebd.csic.es> > >>CC: s-news at lists.biostat.wustl.edu > >> > >>Dear all, > >> > >>in relation to your question, the following working paper of Leo > Knuesel, > >>University of Munich, might be of interest: > >>"On the Accuracy of Statistical Distributions in S-Plus for Windows > >>(1999)" > >>You can download the paper from (pdf-Format, 45k): > >>http://www.stat.uni-muenchen.de/~knuesel/elv/accurac...

...rnal's scope was biological in nature and the article > >> was of interest since Excel is heavily used in that > community. > >> > >> -david paul > > > > > >There is a series of articles here: > > > >http://www.stat.uni-muenchen.de/~knuesel/elv/accuracy.html > > > > > >In addition, there are additional references on Excel > specifically: > > > > > >On the accuracy of statistical procedures in Microsoft > Excel 2000 and > >Excel XP > >B.D. McCullough and B. Wilson, (2002), Computa...

...these in some time and they may be a bit dated relative to current versions. These do not cover R specifically, but do address S-Plus and SAS. This is not an exhaustive list by any means, but many of the papers do have other references that may be of value. 1. http://www.stat.uni-muenchen.de/~knuesel/elv/accuracy.html 2. http://www.amstat.org/publications/tas/mccull-1.pdf 3. http://www.amstat.org/publications/tas/mccull.pdf 4. http://www.npl.co.uk/ssfm/download/documents/cmsc06_00.pdf Another option is that NIST has reference datasets available for comparison at: http://www.itl.nist.gov/...