Comments on: statistical analyses with openoffice.org calc

By: Walter Garcia-Fontes

Walter Garcia-Fontes — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 09:58:11 +0000

I’m glad you like it. I use it myself with in my “Descriptive Statistics” class. Of course if you have any suggestions or feature requests please do enter them at the project’s site: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=277622&atid=1178847

By: Shankar Venkatagiri

Shankar Venkatagiri — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 06:12:02 +0000

I use LibreOffice and OooStat to teach statistical functions in my course at a business school. Your page is very helpful.

I’m glad to have followed through Walter’s link. Very helpful, once again!

Shankar

By: ikd

ikd — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 12:51:16 +0000

Walter,

Amazing macro and very very detailed work. This should be recommended highly and yes, I have already download it and used it.

I may say that it works perfectly with LibreOffice.

By: Walter Garcia-Fontes

Walter Garcia-Fontes — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 07:02:18 +0000

I agree with you that for professional statistical analysis or for research, more specific statistical packages such as R should be used. But for simple descriptive statistics or for educational purposes Calc may be appropriate.

I have been written a set of macros for a class that I teach in descriptive statistics, I’ve called it ODStatistics and it can be downloaded from:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/odstatistics/files/odstatistics-0.3.17.zip/download

By: ikd

ikd — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 05:45:47 +0000

Mike,

I’d like to know what you found “… at best condescending, and generally insulting”. Yes, Calc (as well as Excel or any other spreadsheet program) was not meant to be used for statistics work. There are better, more accurate, more analytical programs for such work.

If you object to the phrase ” … for those who need or have to (or … whatever), “, then I am sorry that you felt in such a way. I never said that the people using Calc are inferior, only that there are other options for their statistical work.

Thank you, however, for you kind words about my skill and knowledge. I appreciate it.

By: Mike

Mike — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 02:49:07 +0000

While I found your information from “A. Basic Descriptive Statistics” reasonably informative and helpful, your opening statements and tone are at best condescending, and generally insulting. Since the article is about statistical analysis in OpenOffice Calc, suggesting that a person is stupid for using Calc is highly unprofessional and completely in appropriate. If you prefer another software package that is fine. However, such should not be your opening for this topic, nor should it be presented as treating those using Calc as inferior. Please take the time to re-work you opening so that your skill and knowledge shine cleanly instead of through the fog of resentment it currently generates.