Tag Archives: statistics

2010 in review

Posted on 02/01/2011 by dougaj4

The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health: The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Wow. Crunchy numbers The Louvre Museum has 8.5 million visitors per year. … Continue reading →

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ALGLIB Statistics Functions

Posted on 16/08/2010 by dougaj4

I have recently imported all the ALGLIB statistics functions into VBA, and written interface functions where required, so that all the functions may now be used as User Defined Functions (UDFs) on the spreadsheet.  A spreadsheet including full open source code … Continue reading →

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Chart Trend Lines and the Linest Function

Posted on 03/11/2009 by dougaj4

At the Mr Excel discussion forum the output of the worksheet function Linest(), compared with chart trend lines raised a question, where it is said that in Excel 2007 the trend line gives different (and incorrect) coefficients for a polynomial curve … Continue reading →

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