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Subject: Re: [office-formula] LEGACY.CHIDIST and LEGACY.CHIINV: remove LEGACYprefix
Hi Andreas, On Monday, 2007-03-12 14:05:46 -0600, Andreas J. Guelzow wrote: > All the other functions called ..DIST calculate density or cumulative > distribution. CHIDIST is the odd one out calculating 1 minus the > cumulative distribution. > > It is quite dangerous to have a function that appears to be named to > match all those other distribution functions but calculates something > different. Ok. I'll update the cross references accordingly to include LEGACY. I wonder whether CHITEST should be called LEGACY.CHITEST then, because internally, at least in the OOo implementation, it uses LEGACY.CHIDIST called with the Chi-square value computed and the (strange, one more reason to call it legacy) degrees of freedom. Eike -- Automatic string conversions considered dangerous. They are the GOTO statements of spreadsheets. --Robert Weir on the OpenDocument formula subcommittee's list.
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