Here's something interesting if you are into Free Software and Statistics (and OOXML of course :)
Allin Cottrell replicated a statistical analysis carried out by people at effi.org (Electronic Frontier Finland), showing significant correlation between the "perceived corruption index" of a country and their support to OOXML.
FYI, the original effi.org analysis (http://www.effi.org/blog/kai-2007-09-05.en.html) was done using GNU R ( http://www.r-project.org ), Allin's scripts are for gretl (http://gretl.sf.net), both are Free Software.
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Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2007 14:17:07 -0400 (EDT) From: Allin Cottrell cottrell@wfu.edu To: Gretl users gretl-users@lists.wfu.edu Subject: [Gretl-users] cute sample script?
For anyone using current CVS gretl or the Windows snapshot: I've added a datafile and sample script pertaining to the possible role of corruption in last month's ISO vote on Microsoft's "Office Open XML". See http://www.effi.org/blog/kai-2007-09-05.en.html The files are ooballot.gdt and ooballot.inp.
At effi.org there are analyses using Fisher's Exact Test and the Rank Sum test (done with R). The gretl script replicates those, but also includes an ordered probit, which seems to provide stronger evidence for the claim: the greater the degree of "perceived corruption" in a country, the more likely was a favourable vote for MS.
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