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If I remember correctly, this wasn't really a "mathematics" mistake. The formula simply wasn't applied to the right number of cells (they didn't apply the cell-
by arugulum 7y ago
If I remember correctly, this wasn't really a "mathematics" mistake. The formula simply wasn't applied to the right number of cells (they didn't apply the cell-selection far enough).
Although that's beside the point. This was a tragedy of the academic economist profession, and should be covered day-one in any Econ research class.
- QuesnayJr 7y agoIt is a very famous example in economics, but it was very unusual for them to do their analysis in Excel rather than a stats package like Stata.