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Journal of Statistical Software

Volumn 52, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1-14

  McCullough, Bruce D ^a   Talha Yalta, A ^b  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TOBB UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND TECHNOLOGY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Accuracy; Cloud computing; Excel; Google Docs; Spreadsheet; Wilkinson tests; Zoho

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873899963     PISSN: 15487660     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18637/jss.v052.i07     Document Type: Article

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