Issue 79944 - inaccuracies in statistical functions
Summary: inaccuracies in statistical functions
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of issue 18704
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Product: Calc
Classification: Application
Component: code (show other issues)
Version: OOo 2.2.1
Hardware: All All
: P3 Trivial (vote)
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Assignee: spreadsheet
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Reported: 2007-07-24 08:46 UTC by talha_yalta
Modified: 2007-07-24 12:56 UTC (History)
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Description talha_yalta 2007-07-24 08:46:34 UTC 
I am a faculty member at the TOBB University of Economics and
Technology and I am currently working on an article comparing the
accuracy of statistical functions in Excel 2007 versus various free
software alternatives including ooo. Once completed, this paper will be
published in a scholarly journal in Statistics and Econometrics.

While testing ooo along with ELV, Excel, R, and Gnumeric, I realized
that the statistical functions in ooo are generally accurate, however, I also
found important errors in Calc's poisson distribution, normal distribution,
inverse normal distribution, inverse chi-square distribution, inverse beta
distribution, inverse F distribution and inverse student's t distribution.

Because this is a study in progress, I will be happy to share my results with
you if you provide me with a private contact email. I think it is best that
these errors are fixed in a prompt manner.
Regards
ATY
Comment 1 ooo 2007-07-24 12:56:06 UTC 
I'll take this "request for contact", but will close the issue itself as a
duplicate of issue 18704 that has more details about this topic.

@talha_yalta, I'll contact you per mail.

Thanks
  Eike

*** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 18704 ***
Comment 2 ooo 2007-07-24 12:56:47 UTC 
Closing dup.