Testing numerical reliability of data analysis systems
Computational Statistics & Data Analysis
Report on the numerical reliability of data analysis systems
Computational Statistics & Data Analysis
On the accuracy of the statistical distributions in GAUSS
Computational Statistics & Data Analysis
On the accuracy of statistical distributions in Microsoft Excel 97
Computational Statistics & Data Analysis
On the accuracy of statistical procedures in Microsoft Excel 97
Computational Statistics & Data Analysis
Software Engineering Economics
Software Engineering Economics
Software Cost Estimation with Cocomo II with Cdrom
Software Cost Estimation with Cocomo II with Cdrom
On the reliability of Microsoft Excel XP for statistical purposes
Computational Statistics & Data Analysis
On the accuracy of statistical procedures in microsoft Excel 2000 and Excel XP
Computational Statistics & Data Analysis
Numerical Issues in Statistical Computing for the Social Scientist
Numerical Issues in Statistical Computing for the Social Scientist
A comparative study of the reliability of nine statistical software packages
Computational Statistics & Data Analysis
The open source software phenomenon: Characteristics that promote research
The Journal of Strategic Information Systems
On the accuracy of statistical procedures in Microsoft Excel 2007
Computational Statistics & Data Analysis
The accuracy of statistical distributions in Microsoft®Excel 2007
Computational Statistics & Data Analysis
Microsoft Excel's 'Not The Wichmann-Hill' random number generators
Computational Statistics & Data Analysis
Code Reuse in Open Source Software
Management Science
Microsoft Excel 2000 and 2003 Faults, Problems, Workarounds and Fixes
Computational Statistics & Data Analysis
On the accuracy of statistical procedures in Microsoft Excel 2003
Computational Statistics & Data Analysis
Opening up design science: The challenge of designing for reuse and joint development
The Journal of Strategic Information Systems
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We survey the literature on the accuracy of econometric software. We also assess the advantages of open source software from the point of view of reliability and discuss its potential in applied economics, which has now become fully dependent on computers. As a case study, we apply various accuracy tests on GNU Regression, Econometrics and Time-series Library (gretl) and demonstrate that the open source nature of the program made it possible to see the cause, facilitated a rapid fix, and enabled verifying the correction of a number of flaws that we uncovered. We also run the same tests on four widely-used proprietary econometric packages and observe the known accuracy errors that remained uncorrected for more than 5 years.