No , but please RSVP if you disagree with me.
John Kane
Kingston ON Canada
> -Original Message-
> From: cl...@ecy.wa.gov
> Sent: Thu, 14 Mar 2013 09:28:46 -0700 (PDT)
> To: gunter.ber...@gene.com
> Subject: Re: [R] NLS results different from Excel -- Tricky fortun
Following up on Bert's nomination, may I take one from a recent email I
received?
"The second file is air concentrations against frequencies plotted by SAS;
however we don't have the SAS statistical package..."
I thought the original name for SAS was Statistical Analysis System--am I
missing
Just as an FYI, there is the NISTnls package on CRAN by Doug Bates:
http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/NISTnls/index.html
There have also been threads over the years touching on some of the issues in
replicating the NIST results, for example:
http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/devel/06/0
I think that this nomination is a Good Idea!
cheers,
Rolf
On 02/21/2013 06:50 AM, Bert Gunter wrote:
Folks:
I thought the following excerpt from Bruce McCullough's post would be
a good candidate for the R fortunes package -- except that it's about
Excel, not R! So I nominate it.
Folks:
I thought the following excerpt from Bruce McCullough's post would be
a good candidate for the R fortunes package -- except that it's about
Excel, not R! So I nominate it... but leave it to others to say
whether it's really "qualified" to be nominated.
"The idea that the Excel solver
The idea that the Excel solver "has a good reputation for being fast and
accurate" does not withstand an examination of the Excel solver's
ability to solve the StRD nls test problems. Solver's ability is
abysmal. 13 of 27 "answers" have zero accurate digits, and three more
have fewer than tw
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