Not to round is the question [General Sta­tis­tics]

posted by d_labes  – Berlin, Germany, 2011-09-22 11:11 (5389 d 19:20 ago) – Posting: # 7385
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My dear captain,

where is your problem :ponder:?

All serious statistical software I'm aware of have functions for the t-quantile which accepts non-integer degrees of freedom.

So why round/truncate the df's in any way? If you can get serious statistical software for free (R project)?

We know that the Welch-Satterthwaite procedure is an approximate solution to the problem of testing means with unequal variances. Do we need an approximation to the approximation?

BTW: Seems Martin's theorem "Never never never never use Excel. Not even for calculation of arithmetic means." may be extended to OpenOffice Calc :-D?

Regards,

Detlew

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