This article considers which activities in teaching statistics may be suitable candidates for the application of spreadsheets, and whether spreadsheets in general and Excel 2007 in particular are suitable for these tasks.

R users can often solve optimization tasks easily using the tools in the optim function in the stats package provided by default on R installations. However, there are many other optimization and nonlinear modelling tools in R or in easily installed add-on packages. These present users with a...

In the wake of Dub´e, Fox and Su (2012), this paper (i) analyzes the consequences for the BLP Contraction Mapping (Berry, Levinsohn and Pakes, 1995) of setting the inner-loop convergence tolerance at the required level of in D 10 14 to avoid propagation of approximation error from inner to...