statPerlman.tar.Z contains the executable files and the documentation for Gary Perlman's |STAT package. It also contains a description of how to ftp and compile the source code. Dr. Perlman does not want the source code posted but has allowed me to post the executables.
Attached to this file is Dr. Perlman's description of |STAT.
Hal.Varian@umich.edu
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|STAT 5.4
DATA MANIPULATION & ANALYSIS PROGRAMS
FOR UNIX and MSDOS
|STAT is a set of over 20 data manipulation and analysis programs
developed by Gary Perlman at the University of California, San Diego and at
the Wang Institute of Graduate Studies. The programs are designed with the
UNIX philosophy that individual programs should be designed as tools that
do one task well and produce output suitable for input via pipes to other
programs. Interactive use is supported in the command line interpreter
which also provides a programming language for complex analyses. Functions
built into many statistical packages (e.g., graphics and editing) are not
re-invented in |STAT which delegates such responsibility to standard tools.
Typical usage involves a pipeline of transformations of data followed by
input to an analysis program, summarized schematically by:
INPUT DATA | TRANSFORM | ANALYSIS | OUTPUT RESULTS
Data Manipulation Programs:
abut join data files beside each other
colex column extraction/formatting
dm conditional data extraction/transformation
dsort multiple key data sorting filter
linex line extraction
maketrix create matrix format file from free-format input
perm permute line order randomly, numerically, alphabetically
probdist probability distribution functions
ranksort convert data to ranks
repeat repeat strings or lines in files
reverse reverse lines, columns, or characters
series generate an additive series of numbers
transpose transpose matrix format input
validata verify data file consistency
Data Analysis Programs:
anova multi-factor analysis of variance
calc interactive algebraic modeling calculator
contab contingency tables and chi-square
desc descriptions, histograms, frequency tables
dprime signal detection d' and beta calculations
features tabulate features of items
oneway one-way anova/t-test with error-bar plots
pair paired data statistics, regression, scatterplots
rankind rank order analysis for independent conditions
rankrel rank order analysis for related conditions
regress multiple linear regression and correlation
stats simple summary statistics
ts time series analysis and plots
Package Features:
simple input formats (free format field oriented)
flexible data manipulation
several simple lineprinter plotting options
data validation (range and type checking)
consistent option conventions with online help
runs on any UNIX System (V6, V7, 2.8BSD, 4BSD, System V, etc.)
runs on MSDOS 2.0 and 3.0 with 96K (IBM, Wang, AT&T, Epson, etc.)
usually less than a few seconds per analysis
liberal copyright (but can't be distributed for gain)
Notes:
UNIX is a trademark of AT&T Bell Laboratories.
MSDOS is a trademark of MicroSoft.
|STAT is NOT a product of any company or organization.
Distribution Conditions:
CAREFULLY READ THE FOLLOWING CONDITIONS. IF YOU DO NOT FIND THEM
ACCEPTABLE, YOU SHOULD NOT USE |STAT.
|STAT IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED. THE
USER ASSUMES ALL RISKS OF USING |STAT. THERE IS NO CLAIM OF THE
MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. |STAT MAY NOT BE
SUITED TO YOUR NEEDS. |STAT MAY NOT RUN ON YOUR PARTICULAR HARDWARE OR
SOFTWARE CONFIGURATION. THE AVAILABILITY OF AND PROGRAMS IN |STAT MAY
CHANGE WITHOUT NOTICE. NEITHER MANUFACTURER NOR DISTRIBUTOR BEAR
RESPONSIBILITY FOR ANY MISHAP OR ECONOMIC LOSS RESULTING THEREFROM OF THE
USE OF |STAT EVEN IF THE PROGRAMS PROVE TO BE DEFECTIVE. |STAT IS NOT
INTENDED FOR CONSUMER USE.
CASUAL USE BY USERS NOT TRAINED IN STATISTICS, OR BY USERS NOT SUPERVISED
BY PERSONS TRAINED IN STATISTICS, MUST BE AVOIDED. USERS MUST BE TRAINED
AT THEIR OWN EXPENSE TO LEARN TO USE THE PROGRAMS. DATA ANALYSIS PROGRAMS
MAKE MANY ASSUMPTIONS ABOUT DATA, THESE ASSUMPTIONS AFFECT THE VALIDITY OF
CONCLUSIONS MADE BASED ON THE PROGRAMS. REFERENCES TO APPROPRIATE
STATISTICAL SOURCES ARE MADE IN THE |STAT HANDBOOK AND IN THE MANUAL
ENTRIES FOR SPECIFIC PROGRAMS. THE PROGRAMS HAVE NOT BEEN VALIDATED FOR
LARGE DATASETS, HIGHLY VARIABLE DATA, NOR VERY LARGE NUMBERS.
YOU MAY MAKE COPIES OF ANY TANGIBLE FORMS OF |STAT, PROVIDED THAT THERE IS
NO MATERIAL GAIN INVOLVED, AND PROVIDED THAT THE INFORMATION IN THIS NOTICE
ACCOMPANIES EVERY COPY. YOU MAY DISTRIBUTE COPIES OF |STAT, PROVIDED THAT
MASS DISTRIBUTION (SUCH AS ELECTRONIC BULLETIN BOARDS) IS NOT USED. YOU
MAY NOT MODIFY THE SOURCE CODE FOR ANY PURPOSES OTHER THAN GETTING THE
PROGRAMS TO WORK ON YOUR SYSTEM. ANY COSTS IN COMPILING OR PORTING |STAT
TO YOUR SYSTEM ARE YOUR'S ALONE, AND NOT ANY OTHER PARTIES. YOU MAY NOT
DISTRIBUTE ANY MODIFIED SOURCE CODE OR DOCUMENTATION TO USERS AT ANY SITES
