Tag Archives: UDF

Weighted Least Squares Regression, using Excel, VBA, Alglib and Python

Posted on 05/02/2017 by dougaj4

Least squares linear regression in Excel is easy.  That’s what the Linest and Trend functions do.  That is, they find the coefficients of a straight line (or higher dimension shape) so that the sum of the squares of the distances of … Continue reading →

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Debugging with xlwings and PyCharm

Posted on 26/01/2017 by dougaj4

The xlwings documentation covers de-bugging, but it is very brief and it took me some time to get everything working, so this article covers the process in a bit more detail.  The details are affected by the editor being used, … Continue reading →

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Nearest Lookup Function

Posted on 21/10/2016 by dougaj4

The Excel Lookup functions (including VLookup, HLookup and Match) all allow for an “exact” or “closest” match on numerical data, but the closest option has a number of problems: The data must be sorted For VLookup and HLookup the data … Continue reading →

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xlwSciPy 1.09 – update for xlwings 0.10 and Scipy 0.18.1

Posted on 02/10/2016 by dougaj4

The xlwSciPy spreadsheet (last presented here) has been updated for the latest version of xlwings and Scipy. The new spreadsheet can be downloaded from: xlScipy-xlw.zip including full open source code. The spreadsheet requires Python, including xlwings, Numpy, Scipy and Pandas … Continue reading →

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VBA routines for splitting and joining text

Posted on 25/09/2016 by dougaj4

As mentioned in the previous post, I have written two short VBA routines to aid the process of splitting a column of text strings into separate columns, using either a space or any other chosen character as the delimiter.  These … Continue reading →

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