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Last FAQ update: 9/18/97
This means that the file COMPOBJ.DLL is in use at the time of installation. A possible cause is that you have Microsoft Office (or Lotus SmartSuite, PerfectOffice Suite, or a similar application) installed and placed in your Windows' StartUp group, so that the application starts running whenever you start Windows. There are two ways to solve this problem.
Maybe your OLE2 related files are too old or incompatible with the ones shipped with the StatMost program disks. There are five OLE2 related files:
These files are all located under the WINDOWS\SYSTEM subdirectory. You can either copy these files to a floppy disk or rename them as *.BAK files. Then delete these files from your WINDOWS\SYSTEM directory and reinstall StatMost.
One way to make the installation process faster is to copy all the StatMost distribution files to your computer's hard disk and install StatMost from the hard disk.
One possibility is that you do not have the very latest ODBC drivers for your database program installed on your system. Although we try to provide the very latest versions of the ODBC drivers with each new release of StatMost, Microsoft and the various database developers are constantly publishing new file formats and ODBC drivers. You can download the latest version of the driver files you need from the Microsoft Website. If having the new driver file on your system does not take care of your ODBC importing problems, please contact Dataxiom Technical Support.
You can perform the descriptive statistics by selecting the Statistics | Descriptive - General option. This will bring up the Descriptive Statistics dialog box. In this dialog box, select column A by clicking on column A in the Data Column List box. Then hold the <Ctrl> key and click the mouse button on column D. This way you can select (or highlight) nonconsecutive columns in the Data Column List Box. See Chapter 2, Section 2.7 of the StatMost 3.0 User's Guide.
See the answer to the preceding question.
The font size of datasheet output depends on your specific printer. The default font of StatMost is set to Courier New with size 18. This setting is fine for most printers. With the HP LaserJet 4P printer, however, you need to change the font size to 48 or so. You can change the print font by selecting the File | Page Setup option. This will bring up the Page Setup dialog box. Click the Print Font button in the dialog box to change the print font for datasheet output. In fact, you can also change other page settings in this dialog box.
Select the Data | Transform - Simple Math option. This will bring up the Simple Math dialog box which allows you to enter a formula for the calculation. For example, if you want to create a new column C which is the product of column A and column B, you simply enter 'C=A*B'. For more descriptions, see Chapter 5, Section 5.4, and Appendix B, Section B.1 in the StatMost 3.0 User's Guide.
Use the Data | Fill option. This option brings up the Block Fill dialog box (see Figure 5.1.1 in the StatMost 3.0 User's Guide). In the dialog box, enter the Minimum value as '1,' and the Maximum value as '100;' set the Series Option to Random; and check the Integer checkbox. Once the Integer checkbox is checked, the resulting values will be integers.
The symbol 'NaN' means Not-A-Number, and '1.#IND' is an undefined numeric value. This means that you may have missing values or text values in your data columns. Some statistical computations (such as ANOVA, Student t-test, etc.) ignore missing values, but other calculations (such as the Chi-square contingency table) take paired values so that the missing values or text values are used in computations. That's why you get all the 'NaN' or '1.#IND' characters. To avoid this situation, you can trim out the missing values (Data | Trim) or replace missing values by some other valid values (Data | Recode). In fact, there are several other strange characters in StatMost reports that signal missing values, such as '1.#QND', '1.#QNAN0', etc.
When specifying your factor size in the analysis dialog box, keep in mind that your slowest moving factor should be specified first (i.e., as factor A). For example, suppose the data are entered into the datasheet as follows: Low1 Med1 High1 Low2 Med2 High2. That is, all the variables for block 1 followed by all the variables for block 2. For this data setup, you should assign your factors as follows: Factor A: 2 (block), Factor B: 3 (treatment). Alternatively, if the data are organized somewhat differently: Low1 Low2 Med1 Med2 High1 High2, that is, all variables for treatment 1 (low), then all variables for treatment 2 (med), followed by all variables for treatment 3 (high), then the factors should be assigned as follows: Factor A: 3 (treatment), Factor B: 2 (block).
For this repeated measures design you should use the Experimental Design option in the Analysis menu and choose the Two Factors option, followed by the Treatment by Treatment by Subjects option. Given the way your data are arranged, you should specify your slowest moving factor (as entered into your datasheet) as Factor A (in this case, area, with 2 levels) and your fastest moving factor as Factor B (in this case, trial, with 6 levels).
You did not add a curve to the new graph. In some of the graph setup dialog boxes (for instance, the 2D Scatter Dialog Box), there is an Add Curve button. By default, StatMost puts the initial columns in the X and Y positions and the value for the curve number next to the Add Curve button is '0.' This means there is no curve added to the new graph. You need to click the Add Curve button to add the new curve to a graph before you click OK.
Each time you click the Add Curve button, StatMost automatically clears the Y position to allow you to choose another Y for the next curve. This prevents you from adding the same curve twice. Because StatMost can plot multiple curves in one graph, this Add Curve feature allows you to add many curves to the same graph.
Adding new curves to an existing graph is similar to creating a new graph with multiple curves. The only difference is that you need to select the existing graph you want to add curves to. Once that graph is selected, choose one of the options from the Plot menu, and set up the curve options the same way you create a new graph. Notice that the curve count (number displayed in the setup dialog box next to the Add Curve button) is for the newly added curves only. It does not include the curves in the existing graph.
There are two ways to change colors in the color palette. One way is to use the File | Preference option. This will bring up the Preference dialog box. There is a Color Palette list box. Double-click (or right mouse click) on the color you want to change to bring up the Color dialog box. Another way is to change color in any one of the graphic object properties dialog boxes. At any color drop-down list box, double-click (or right mouse click) on the color you want to change to bring up the Color dialog box. Choose a color in the Basic Color list or click Define Custom Color to define your own color. The new color will replace the color in the Color Palette and will be used as a default color in your future Color Palettes in StatMost. The Color Palette will be saved to your STATMOST.INI file for future use. The Color Palette is used when you modify drawing colors of graphic objects. If you want to go back to the original default Color Palette, you can delete the ColorPaletteR, ColorPaletteG, and ColorPaletteB values in the STATMOST.INI file.
Group (stacked) bar and stacked area graphs are quite different from multiple scatter/line curves. There is a significant difference in the graphs' internal structure. For example, a group of five bars contains five pairs of data series but is treated inside StatMost as a single data series, while a graph with five scatter curves has five individual pairs of data series. In order to select an individual bar series in a group bar (stacked bar or stacked area) graph, you can click on the bar once. If you want to select another bar series, click on the other bar twice (not double-clicking). Clicking on it once will select the graph (not the bar), and clicking on it the second time will select it.
By default, the graph page output options show paper header, paper footer, paper border, and crop marks. You can turn these options off by selecting the File | Page Setup option. This option will bring up the Page Setup dialog box, which allows you to check or uncheck the paper header, paper footer, paper border, and crop marks options.
You can change the graph size by selecting the View | Set Page Option. This option will bring up the Set Page dialog box, which allows you to set the page dimension and orientation. Note that the page size is different from the paper size. Normally the page size is smaller than the paper size. StatMost always places the graph page at the center of your paper. In order to print the paper information such as paper header, footer, border, and crop marks for 8.5''x11'' paper, you need to set your page size to 7.5''x10'' or smaller.
By default, the tick marks on an axis are pointing toward the outside of the graph. To change them to point to the inside, modify the Tick Size to a negative value in the 2D Axis Properties dialog box (Figure 10.3.3). See Section 10.3 in the StatMost 3.0 User's Guide for details.
Many of the individual objects in a StatMost graph can be either shown or hidden, or even turned off completely. First, you must select your plot by clicking your mouse pointer anywhere inside the plot frame. Once you do this, "handles" should appear on the plot frame itself. Now to turn off the connecting line, go to the Format menu and choose Select Curve. This brings up the Select Plot Curves dialog box. From here, select Properties to go the the Error Bar Properties dialog box and click None under Line and OK to remove the connecting line from your plot.
In addition, if you also wanted to hide an object like the datasheet name from your graph, you can choose Show/Hide Objects from the Format menu. You then scroll down the list of plot objects until you come to the datasheet name object, select it, and click Hide followed by OK. This object will then disappear from your graph.
This is a known driver problem on some printers. If you notice this problem, select the Preference option on the File menu from any StatMost window, select "Special Printer" in the Preference dialog box and then reprint your graph. Note that you may need to toggle the Special Printer option off and on up to three times before your graphs will print correctly. If you do not see this option in the Preference dialog box of your version of StatMost, please contact Dataxiom Technical Support.
This is a known driver problem on some printers. If you notice this problem, select the Preference option on the File menu from any StatMost window, select "Reverse Font Rotation on Printing" in the Preference dialog box, and then reprint your graph. If you do not see this option in the Preference dialog box of your version of StatMost, please contact Dataxiom Technical Support.
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