Improving How Microsoft Excel Displays Default Extremely Small Probability Values
Microsoft Excel™’s default method of displaying probability values observed in the sample, in the case of very small values, is confusing to beginning students in statistics. This is because Excel displays them in engineering notation (3.52955E-.05, as opposed to .0000352955, for example). In additi...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Bond University
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| Series: | Spreadsheets in Education |
| Online Access: | http://sie.scholasticahq.com/article/4597-improving-how-microsoft-excel-displays-default-extremely-small-probability-values.pdf |