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- SIMSTAT 3.0b
-
- January, 1994
-
- Designed and written by Normand Peladeau
-
- Copyright (C) 1991-94, N. Peladeau
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- This program is produced by a member of the Association of Shareware
- Professionals (ASP). ASP wants to make sure that the shareware
- principle works for you. If you are unable to resolve a shareware-
- related problem with an ASP member by contacting the member directly,
- ASP may be able to help. The ASP Ombudsman can help you resolve a
- dispute or problem with an ASP member, but does not provide technical
- support for members' products. Please write to the ASP Ombudsman at
- 545 Grover Road, Muskegon, MI 49442 or send a CompuServe message via
- CompuServe Mail to ASP Ombudsman 70007,3536.
-
-
- SHAREWARE DESCRIPTION
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- SIMSTAT and its related programs are NOT public domain or
- freeware! The SIMSTAT package is a copyrighted software product
- developed and owned by Normand Peladeau.
-
- SIMSTAT is distributed as shareware. As such, individuals may
- evaluate the SIMSTAT package for a maximum period of 30 days. At
- the end of the evaluation period, if you find SIMSTAT to be a
- useful tool and wish to continue using it, you must register your
- copy with the author, Normand Peladeau.
-
- Registration entitles you to a copy of the current version of
- SIMSTAT and a free copy of the next version when it becomes
- available. This copy will be mailed to you as soon as it is
- released. Registered use also receive a printed and bounded
- manual and a minimum of 90 days of free support (by mail and
- via CompuServe).
-
- Registered users who have already received their upgrade of
- SIMSTAT may order the next version by paying a minimal fee.
-
- To register your copy of SIMSTAT, fill out the order form
- included in the distribution archive (the file called ORDER.FRM)
- and mail it with payment to the address specified on the form.
-
-
- FILES ON THE SIMSTAT DISTRIBUTION DISKS
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- 5 text files
- READ.ME -- Program description and start-up instructions
- ORDER.FRM -- Ready-to-print order form
- LISENCE.DOC -- Please Read This!!
- VENDOR.DOC -- Info on distributing shareware copies
- FILE_ID.DIZ -- Short program description
-
-
- 9 files for the main program, spreadsheet editor and probability calculator
- SIMSTAT.EXE -- The SIMSTAT statistical program
- SIMSTAT.DEF -- The SIMSTAT default configuration file
- SIMSTAT.HLP -- The SIMSTAT help file
- SIMSTAT.PAL -- The default palette file
-
- SIMEDIT.EXE -- The SIMEDIT data editor
- SIMEDIT.HLP -- The SIMEDIT help file
-
- SIMCALC.EXE -- The SIMCALC probability calculator
- SIMCALC.DEF -- The SIMCALC default configuration file
- SIMCALC.HLP -- The SIMCACC help file
-
- 4 sample data files
- SAMPLE.DAT -- A sample ASCII data file
- SAMPLE.SYS -- A SPSS/PC+ system file
- SAMPLE.DBF -- A dBASE III data file
- SAMPLE.WKS -- A Lotus 1-2-3 data file
-
- 2 utility file
- EXPAND.EXE -- A program to uncompressed listing files
- EDITMENU.EXE -- A program to create and edit pulldown menu definition
-
- 2 palette files
- MONO.PAL -- Monochrome palette file
- COLOR.PAL -- Color palette file
-
- 2 menu definition files
- SHORT.MNU -- Sample short menu
- FULL.MNU -- Full menu
-
- Several video and printer driver files
- *.BGI -- Video and printer drivers
- *.CHT -- Video and printer fonts
-
-
-
- INSTALLING AND RUNNING SIMSTAT
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- To install the program, simply copy all the files to the
- destination disk or directory.
-
- When starting Simstat, there are three command line options that
- can be used:
-
- /M or -M Force monochrome color set on a computer with a color card.
-
- /E or -E Display 43 lines on an EGA or 50 lines on a VGA monitor.
-
- /C or -C Save the listing file in a compressed format. This option
- is useful for saving disk space when running on a laptop.
- The listing file will take up to 75% less disk space.
- You must use the EXPAND.EXE utility to uncompress the
- listing file.
-
- CONFIGURING SIMSTAT TO WORK WITH EXTERNAL EDITORS
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- SIMSTAT can be configured to automatically call external data file
- editors in order to edit the current data file or to create a new file.
- It allows the specification of up to 4 externals programs corresponding
- to the four types of file currently supported (LOTUS, DBASE, SPSS/PC, and
- ASCII). For each of those types, enter the full name of the program or
- batch file including the drive and directory where it resides. You can
- also enter any parameters normally used when calling the program from the
- dos prompt. To automatically include the current filename put the $f
- keyword where you want the filename to appear.
-
-
- PROGRAM MAINS FEATURES
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- SIMSTAT is a menu driven statistical program that provides many
- basic descriptive and comparative statistics including:
-
- o Summary statistics (mean, variance, standard deviation, etc.)
- o Crosstabulation
- - normal crosstabulation and inter-raters agreement table
- - nominal statistics (chi-square, Pearson's Phi,
- Goodman-Kruskall's Gamma, Contingency coefficient)
- - ordinal statistics (Kendall's tau-b and tau-c, Pearson's R,
- symmetric and asymmetric Somers' D, Dxy and Dyx)
- - inter-raters agreement statistics (percentage of agreement,
- Cohen's Kappa, Scott's Pi, Krippendorf's r and R-bar, free
- marginal correction for nominal and ordinal measure)
- - 3-D bar chart
- o Frequencies analysis including:
- - frequencies table
- - barchart
- - graphic pie chart
- NEW 3.0 - Pareto chart
- - histogram (text or graphic)
- - descriptive statistics
- - percentiles table
- NEW 3.0 - Box-and-Whiskers plot (text or graphic)
- NEW 3.0 - Cumulative frequencies graph (ogive)
- o Breakdown analysis
- NEW 3.0 - Brief or detailed statistics
- - Multiple Box-and-Whiskers plot
- o Multiple responses analysis
- - frequency analysis
- - crosstab analysis
- o Time series analysis including
- - Data transformation (ex.: remove mean, lag, etc.)
- - Auto-correlation diagnostic (ACF and PACF plot).
- - Time series smoothing techniques (moving average,
- running median)
- NEW 3.0 - Control bars with user-specified confidence interval
- o Oneway analysis of variance
- NEW 3.0 - Post hoc tests (LSD, Tukey's HSD, Scheffe's test)
- NEW 3.0 - Effect size measures for Anova with 2 samples
- o Paired and independent sample t-tests
- NEW 3.0 - Effect size measures (r and d)
- o Pearson correlation matrix, covariance and cross product
- deviation
- NEW 3.0 - User-specified confidence interval
- o Regression analysis including:
- - Linear and 7 nonlinear regressions including:
- - quadratic
- - cubic
- - 4th degree polynomial
- - 5th degree polynomial
- - logarithmic
- - exponential
- - inverse
- - X and Y scatterplot (text or graphic)
- - regression equation
- - analysis of variance
- - residuals caseplot
- NEW 3.0 - Durbin-Watson statistic
- - standardized residuals scatterplot
- o Multiple regression analysis including:
- - 5 different regression methods:
- - Hierarchical entry
- - forward selection
- - backward elimination
- - stepwise selection
- - enter all variables
- - P to enter, P to remove, and tolerance criteria
- - anova table
- - test of change anova table
- - regression equation (B, standard error of B, beta, confidence
- interval of B, zero-order, semi-partial and partial
- correlations, tolerance level, F, significance)
- - residuals caseplot
- NEW 3.0 - Durbin-Watson statistic
- - standardized residuals scatterplot
- NEW 3.0 o GLM Anova/Ancova (up to 5 factors and covariates) including:
- - detailed anova table
- - can be use to perform multiple regression analysis with
- interaction terms
- - 3 different adjustment methods for unequal cell sizes:
- - regression
- - nonexperimental
- - hierarchical
- - multiple regression statistics
- - test of change of R-Square
- - regression equation (B, standard error of B, beta, confidence
- interval of B, zero-order, semi-partial and partial
- correlations, tolerance level, F, significance)
- - residuals caseplot (Durbin-Watson statistic)
- - standardized residuals scatterplot
- NEW 3.0 o Single-case experimental design analysis
- - descriptive statistics
- - interrupted time-series graph
- - various graphical judgemental aids
- - smoothing (moving average and running median)
- - trend
- - control bars
- NEW 3.0 o Reliability analysis
- - item, inter-item and item-total statistics
- - split-half reliability statistics
- - internal consistency measures (Cronbach's alpha, etc.)
- NEW 3.0 o Sensitivity analysis
- - False-positives and false negatives statistics
- - Sensitivity and specificity statistics
- - ROC curve (Receiver operating characteristics)
- - Error rate graph
- o Nonparametric analysis including:
- - Binomial test
- - One sample chi-square test
- - Runs test
- NEW 3.0 - McNemar test
- - Mann-Whitney U test
- - Wilcoxon T-test
- - Sign test
- - Kruskall-Wallis ANOVA
- - Friedman two way anova
- - Kolmogorov-Smirnov test for 2 samples
- - Kolmogorov-Smirnov test for 1 samples
- - Moses test of extreme reactions
- - Median test (2 or more samples)
- o nonparametric association matrix including
- - Spearman's R
- - Sommer's D, Dxy and Dyx
- - Goodman Kruskall's Gamma
- - Kendall's Tau-a, Tau-b
- - Kendall Stuart's Tau-c
- o bootstrap analysis
- - simulation on 7 univariate and 21 bivariate estimators:
- - descriptive statistics
- - histogram (text of graphics)
- - percentile table
- - nonparametric confidence intervals
- - nonparametric power analysis
- - variable sample size
- - random sampling simulation
- - full analysis bootstrap simulation
-
- o high-resolution graphics
- - Pie chart, 3-D bar chart, histogram, scatterplot, time series
- - User control of axis scaling, titles, grid, etc.
- NEW 3.0 - User control of color, font size, patterns, etc.
- - Graphics can be printed on almost any type of printers such as:
- - 9 and 24 pin dot matrix printers,
- - 9 and 24 pin color printers,
- - HP LaserJet II & III
- - HP DeskJet,
- - Deskjet 500c and 550c color printers,
- - PostScript printers,
- - HP PaintJet color printer,
- - HP pen plotters.
- - HP ThinkJet
- - HP LaserJet 4 (600 dpi)
- - Graphics can be exported to PCX or HPGL graphic formats.
-
- OTHER FEATURES:
-
- o Integer weighting of cases using another variable.
- o Direct access to 4 user defined external data editors for each
- type of data file (Lotus, dBase, Ascii, SPSS/PC+).
- o Ability to assign missing value and variable label to any variable
- or to change the variable length and number of decimal used to
- display results. Ability to save and recall all those information
- in a dictionary file.
- o Ability to shell to DOS.
- o Ability to save and retrieve options files.
- o SIMEDIT spreadsheet data editor (SIMEDIT and SPSS/PC+ file format)
- - Import Lotus, dBase, SPSS/PC+ and ASCII file
- - Export dBase, SPSS/PC+, and ASCII file
- - IF-THEN-ELSE conditional variable transformation with more
- than 47 operators and functions (numeric, trigonometric,
- statistics, random number and date function).
- - Undo last transformation.
- - Quick transform command for often used transformation.
- - Ability to assign variable/value labels and missing values.
- - Variable recoding, ranking, etc..
- - Ability to sort cases.
- - Search and replace values.
-
- o Ability to customize a new Add-ins pulldown menu to run
- SIMSTAT add-in programs or other often used applications.
-
- NEW 3.0b o Ability to customize SIMSTAT pulldown menus.
-
- o SIMCALC probability calculator computes probabilities for
- 9 types of test/distribution as well as confidence intervals
- for mean and correlation. (The registered version can also
- be used as a standalone program)
-
- INPUT AND OUTPUT
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- The data may be read directly from a dBase file (version III or IV),
- a LOTUS 1-2-3 file, an SPSS/PC+ file or from an ASCII data file.
-
- The output can be read on the screen, save on disk in a listing
- file, and/or send directly to the printer.
-
-
- CAPABILITY
- ~~~~~~~~~~
- The program can handle up to 500 variables and 32,000 cases. The
- simulation can contain between 50 and 20,000 subsampling. These
- limitations are the absolute maximums and can be somewhat lower
- depending on the amount of memory available.
-
-
- SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- SIMSTAT will run on any IBM PC/XT, AT, PS/2 and compatible under
- MS-DOS/PC-DOS version 3.0 or higher. A minimum of 360K of free RAM is
- necessary.
-
- The program does not need a numeric coprocessor but will use it
- if available. A coprocessor is highly recommended for extensive
- bootstrap simulation or computation on large samples.
-
-
- CREDIT
- ~~~~~~
- IBM-PC/XT, AT and PS/2, PC-DOS are trademarks of International
- Business Machines.
-
- MS-DOS is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation.
-
- SPSS/PC+ is a registered trademark of SPSS Inc.
-
- DBASE III and IV are trademarks of Borland International.
-
- LOTUS is a trademark of Lotus Corp.
-
- Graphic printer drivers and PCX driver provided by Ryle Design Inc.
-
-
- CREATING AND USING CUSTOMIZED MENUS
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- To simplify the use of SIMSTAT or for security reasons, it may
- be desirable to hide some functions or analyses from the user.
- The EDITMENU.EXE utility program allows you to create and edit
- customized pulldown menus and keep those definitions in a special
- file (.MNU extension). To run this utility program enter:
-
- EDITMENU {filename}
-
- where {filename} stands for the .MNU file you want to edit or create.
- Then, you can use the RETRIEVE OPTIONS command from within SIMSTAT
- to retrieve MNU files and change the current menu definition. You can
- also specify a menu definition by putting the following parameter when
- starting the program:
-
- SIMSTAT /L:{filename}
-
- This parameter can also be invoked automatically by using the following
- SET command before calling SIMSTAT:
-
- SET SIMSTAT = /L:{filename}
-
- Consult your DOS manual for more information on the SET statement.
-
- NOTE TO PROGRAMMERS
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
- An application programming interface (API) for Simstat is currently
- under development. If you are a programmer interested in developing
- add-in programs to perform specific type of analysis currently not
- available in SIMSTAT, please contact the author (see address below).
-
- NONLIN -- Nonlinear Regression Program
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
- If you like SIMSTAT but need a powerful nonlinear
- regression program that can perform statistical regression with
- general equations, I suggest you try the Nonlin program written by
- Phillip H. Sherrod.
-
- Nonlin is a powerful nonlinear regression program that can fit a
- general equation, whose form you specify using normal algebraic
- notation, to a set of data values. The fitted equation can include
- polynomial, exponential, log, square root, and transcendental
- functions including trigonometric, Bessel, Chebyshev polynomials.
- The fitted function may even be piecewise continuous.
-
- Nonlin can be used as a stand-along program or invoked as an
- "add-in" from SIMSTAT using the SIM2NL utility program. The shareware
- version of Nonlin is available from many BBS or you can contact the
- author at the address below. Nonlin version 2.2 or later is required
- for use with SIMSTAT.
-
- For information about Nonlin, contact: Phillip H. Sherrod, 4410
- Gerald Place, Nashville, TN, 37205-3806 USA, 615-292-2881
- (evenings), CompuServe: [76166,2640], Internet:
- 76166.2640@compuserve.com.
-
-
- DISTRIBUTION
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~
- You can contact the author by writing to the following addresses:
-
- By mail:
- Normand Peladeau
- Provalis Research
- 5000, Adam street
- Montreal, QC
- H1V 1W5
-
- By electronic mail:
- CompuServe: [71760,2103]
- Internet: 71770.2103@compuserve.com
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