Analysis Features
General Features
Some of the many features found in new SigmaStat Version 4:
- Over 50 statistical tests to analyze your data
- Ribbon interface improves access to program commands
- An Advisor Wizard to assist you in choosing the correct test that is appropriate for your data
- A programming capability, the transform language, for creating additional analysis procedures and creating user-defined equations for fitting and plotting
- Powerful graph editing capabilities to enhance the appearance of graphs
- A Graph Wizard to create graphs that supplement the result graphs produced by the tests
- Additional graphing interfaces, including the Histogram Wizard, the Plot Equation dialog, and the Plot Regression dialog
- Sample files to assist you in understanding data formats, graph editing features, and the nonlinear regression capabilities
- Numerous import/export file formats for notebooks, worksheets, reports, and graphs
Data Selection
- Several data formats for statistics, including raw, indexed, and tabulated formats
- Several data formats for creating 2D and 3D graphs
Import/Export Worksheets and Notebooks
- ASCII file importer which allows importing comma delimited files and user-selected delimiters
- Excel, SPSS, Minitab, SYSTAT and SAS input data formats are supported by SigmaStat
- Excel and Access database files are supported
- Import any ODBC compliant database
- Run SQL queries on tables and selectively import information
- Export worksheets to plain and comma delimited text files
- Export worksheets to Excel, Minitab, SYSTAT, SAS, and more
- Export notebook files to earlier versions of SigmaStat and SigmaPlot
Graph Export
- Export a selection on a graph page or the entire graph page to bitmap or vector image files
- You can specify the color resolution, spatial resolution (DPI), height, and width of the exported images
- The bitmap formats include JPEG, GIF, PNG, BMP, TIFF-RGB, TIFF-CMYK, and PDF raster
- The vector formats include Enhanced Metafile (EMF), Windows Metafile (WMF), EPS, PDF vector, SVG and SWF
- Save a graph as a web page
Notebook Manager
- Can hold SigmaPlot worksheets, Excel worksheets, graph pages, reports, equations, and transforms
- A notebook docking pane that has several states: docks, resizable, hide-able, summary information mode, etc
- Browser-like notebook functionality that supports drag-n-drop capabilities
- Direct-editing of notebook summary information
Data Worksheet
- Multiple undo
- Adjust row height and column widths
- Long text strings and variable names
- Add row titles
- Format cells and empty columns
- Formatted text (subscript, etc.) in worksheet cells
- Data linked to graphs
- Handles missing data
- Interactive column title editing
- Promote text labels to column titles
- 32 million rows, 32,000 columns (limited by available memory)
- Sort, index, and stack data
- Transpose rows/columns
- Cut, Paste, Copy, etc
Reports
- Export in PDF, RTF, and HTML formats
- Select contents, copy & paste to Microsoft Word for additional editing
- Drag and drop Word documents into reports
- Multiple undo
- Print preview
- Supports embedded objects
- Result graphs can copied and pasted into reports
- Graphical ruler to set tabs and margins
- Change font, text size, and text color
- Add numbered and bulleted lists
- Support for tables
- Change alignment, indentation, background color
- Find and Replace
- Option to “Explain Test Results”
- Option to set the number of significant digits for numeric data
Other Features
- Help – Extensive online Help and PDF documentation for using SigmaStat
- Quick Access Toolbar – Customize to quickly access frequently used commands
- Tip of the Day – Provides useful information about program features
- Statistics Samples – A file of sample data for all statistical tests arranged in various formats
- Password Protection and Auditing – Limit access to notebook files