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Default PEARSON versus CORREL

Fri, 9 Nov 2007 04:23:01 -0800 from Mike H
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"Stan Brown" wrote:

The help text for these two functions sure looks similar (in Excel
2003). Are they in fact the same function, or is there some
difference between them that I'm missing?


Have a look here.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/828129


Thank you.

I wonder: why there were two functions with different implementations
to do the same thing?

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