> On Aug 21, 2009, at 12:42 PM, Bhaskar Sunkara wrote:
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>> I've found Openoffice works always as well.
>
> If you don't want macros, or the stat package in Excel. Couldn't do a
> Hodrick-Prescott filter in OO, since that relies on Visual Basic.
You mean it relies on VB if you're using Excel. Hodrick-Prescott itself predates VB. Naturally you can do it in OO:
http://www.web-reg.de/hp_addin.html
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