Microsoft KB Archive/149236

= Algorithms Used in the ATP Functions =

Article ID: 149236

Article Last Modified on 8/17/2005

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Excel 97 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Excel 95 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Excel 5.0 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Excel 98 for Macintosh

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This article was previously published under Q149236





SUMMARY
Detailed information about the algorithms used to create the Microsoft Excel Analysis ToolPak functions can be retrieved from several resources. The "More Information" section of this article lists some of these resources.



MORE INFORMATION
For detailed information about the algorithms used to create the Microsoft Excel engineering functions, refer to the following book:

Strum, Robert D., and Donald E. Kirk. "First Principles of Discrete

Systems and Digital Signal Processing." Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley

Publishing Company, 1988.

For detailed information about the algorithms or statistical methods used to create the Microsoft Excel statistical functions, refer to the following books:

Abramowitz, Milton, and Irene A. Stegun, eds. "Handbook of Mathematical

Functions with Formulas, Graphs, and Mathematical Tables." Washington,

D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1972.

Box, George E.P., William G. Hunter, and J. Stuart Hunter. "Statistics

for Experimenters." New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1972.

Devore, Jay L. "Probability and Statistics for Engineering and the

Sciences," 3d ed. Pacific Grove, California: Brooks/Cole Publishing

Company, 1991.

McCall, Robert B. "Fundamental Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences."

5th ed. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1990.

Press, W.H., B.P. Flannery, S.A. Teukolsky, and W.T. Wetterling.

"Numerical Recipes in C: The Art of Scientific Computing." New York:

Cambridge University Press, 1988.

Sokal, Robert R., and F. James Rohlf. "Biometry: The Principles and

Practice of Statistics in Biological Research," 2nd ed. New York: W.H.

Freeman and Company, 1981.

For detailed information about the algorithms or financial methods used to create the Microsoft Excel financial functions, refer to the following books:

Fabozzi, Frank J., and Irving M. Pollack. "The Handbook of Fixed Income

Securities." Homewood, Illinois: Business 1 Irwin, 1986.

Hewlett-Packard Company. "HP - 12C Owner's Handbook and Problem-Solving

Guide," 1981.

Lynch, John J. Jr., and Jan H. Mayle. "Standard Securities Calculation

Methods, Fixed Income Securities Formulas." New York: Securities

Industry Association, 1986.

Stigum, Marcia, and John Mann. "Money Market Calculations: Yields,

Break-Evens, and Arbitrage." Homewood, Illinois: Business 1 Irwin,

1989.

For additional information, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

117813 XE0962: Excel AppNote: "Equations for Financial Functions"

