[IRTalk] An alarming number of scientific papers contain Excel errors - The Washington Post

Hilton Gibson hilton.gibson at gmail.com
Sat Aug 27 15:03:11 SAST 2016


For the time being, the only fix for the issue is for researchers and
journal editors to remain vigilant when working with their data files. Even
better, they could abandon Excel completely in favor of programs and
languages that were built for statistical research, like R and Python.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/08/26/an-alarming-number-of-scientific-papers-contain-excel-errors
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