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- Basic STATS: Version 2
- A program to calculate common statistics results
- from a data file
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- written, and compiled in HiSoft BASIC Professional by
- C. Niederberger 2/91
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- Ever want a simple, portable program to calculate mean,
- standard error, and perhaps kurtosis and skewness,
- on a data file created by your favorite spreadsheet
- or word processor on your Amiga? And couldn't find
- one? Well, neither could I.
-
- So I wrote this simple basic program to take an ASCII file
- (choose "general" on your word processor when saving
- the file, or "print to file" on your spreadsheet) and
- perform these common statistics.
-
- Just make a data file starting with the number of data points
- (it **must** be an integer) followed by those data points
- in any orientation, horizontal or vertical. Easy!!
-
- For example, if you wanted to calculate the mean, standard
- error, kurtosis, and skewness of the 5 data points 2.33,
- 1.456, 13.1, 14.2, and 1.232, just make the file:
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- 5
- 2.33
- 1.456
- 13.1
- 14.2
- 1.232
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- or alternately:
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- 5 2.33 1.456
- 13.1 14.2 1.232
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- and run the program. The program will ask you where the
- file is, e.g. ram:testdata, and then will print the
- results. Simple!!
-
- I use this kind of analysis a lot, and I thought that someone
- out there could possibly use this program. I don't
- believe in selling public domain programs myself--I
- do something else for a living, and I program for fun.
- But I would appreciate feedback, so just send me some
- EMAIL if you download this program.
-
- I intend to keep writing code for statistics tests, and as long
- as there is any interest, I'll keep downloading these
- programs. I don't believe in using commercial statistics
- packages (I don't believe in a lot of things) because
- I think the scientist or whoever distances him/herself
- from the analysis, and I HATE seeing commercial statistics
- programs referenced in the scientific literature instead
- of the actual test. HOW TACKY! So I included the HiSoft
- BASIC code in this archive as well as the program--modify
- it in any way that you see fit.
-
- Remember--send feedback!
-
- Craig Niederberger 2/91
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- Updated version:
- Includes file selector (Thanks Jeff Glatt and Steven Kapplin!)
- note: requires requester.library and requester.bmap
- (included in this archive) to be placed in
- libs:
- Better error checking--won't let you select a file that does
- not conform to its expected format
- In general, just a lot prettier!
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- If anybody's interested--Chi-square and Student's t test programs
- will follow.
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