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From: "Octavian Rasnita" <orasnita@home.ro>
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I don't know. You may be right.
However, I am sure that 99.999% of all spreadsheets users (not only excel)
don't need complicated things, statistics, etc.

And BTW. If someone wants a program for statistics under Windows, there are
good program for this task, like SPSS, for example.

Teddy,
orasnita@home.ro

----- Original Message -----
From: "Liz Hare" <eh51@cornell.edu>
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Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2002 3:36 AM
Subject: Re: Amazingly dumb remark about Linux


>
>
> > > "no way!  It doesn't have Excel,
>
> Yeah, right. <smirk> And you can't do real statistics (regressions and
> anything more complicated) because Excel does some of them wrong, and no
> one can figure out how because the software isn't open source.  Even with
> other non-open-source stats software, you can learn how it works.  Not the
> M$ kind though.
>
> Liz
>
> --
> Liz Hare, Ph.D.
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