Excel advantages
- Widely availabile and used
- Off-the-shelf functionality via function wizard
- Easy to develop workbooks for special purposes
- User friendly
Java advantages
- Portable to many platforms
- Can set up special-purpose applets for consulting clients,
even distant ones
- Object system is really necessary for clean development
of multifactor scenarios
- Consultant friendly
Future developments
- More distributions, more Excel workbooks
- Fewer bugs!
- More flexibility in effect-size inputs
- More flexibility in model specification,
including fractional designs, ``restricted model''
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Russ Lenth ---
10/23/1997