This is very sad and mistakes happen whatever software you use, but it looks like with Excel it so easy to do it wrong.
And I still don't get why people continue to do serious data analysis in spreadsheet.

Digging into Herdon, Ash Pollen paper it looks like the use R for their analysis (check page 14, footnote) and the made it available to everyone (here)

Hope that more researchers in social science will drop spreadsheet for serious alternative such as Gretl and R.

May be is the right moment to start to think to a gretl package for reproductible research such as Sweave, Knitr or Org-babel (I succeed to make org-babel works with gretl but it's still lack a lot of feature)




2013/4/19 Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti <r.lucchetti@univpm.it>

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/19/opinion/krugman-the-excel-depression.html

-------------------------------------------------------
  Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti
  Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Sociali (DiSES)

  Universitą Politecnica delle Marche
  (formerly known as Universitą di Ancona)

  r.lucchetti@univpm.it
  http://www2.econ.univpm.it/servizi/hpp/lucchetti
-------------------------------------------------------
_______________________________________________
Gretl-users mailing list
Gretl-users@lists.wfu.edu
http://lists.wfu.edu/mailman/listinfo/gretl-users



--
Ahmadou H. DICKO
statistician and applied economist
PhD student in Climate change economics
Faculty of economics and managment - Cheikh Anta Diop University
West African Science Service Center on Climate Change and Adaptated Land Use (WASCAL)
Center for Development Research (ZEF) - University of Bonn
twitter : @dickoah
github : github/dickoa
tel : +221 33 827 55 16
portable: +221 77 123 81 69