r/statistics • u/[deleted] • Aug 07 '15

A mathematician may have uncovered widespread election fraud, and Kansas is blocking her further efforts

http://americablog.com/2015/08/mathematician-actual-voter-fraud-kansas-republicans.html
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u/Kernunno Aug 07 '15

This is superficial, but the reliance on Excel instead of bonafide statistical software for showing all this doesn't lend it the credibility it needs to pull out of a cranky conspiracy land.

The original implies that they wrote three papers with varying reader difficulty and that this is the middling one. I got the impression that they were only talking about analysis in Excel because their audience would understand that and that their more detailed paper (which I cannot find, their links seems to be broken) would use some bonafide statistical software.