Home
StatPlus 2007 Professional Help Prev Page Prev Page
StatPlus
License agreement
Support
What's New
Getting started
Loading program
Using Keyboard
Entering Data
Editing Data
Statistics
Analyzing Data
Bibliography
Elementary Concepts
Basic Statistics
Descriptive Statistics
Comparing Means
One Sample T-Test
F-Test Two-Sample for Variances
Linear Correlation (Pearson)
Fechner Correlation
Covariance
Normality Tests
Frequency Tables
Cross Tabulation
ANOVA
One-way ANOVA
Two-way and Three-way ANOVA
GLM ANOVA
Latin Squares Analysis
Regression
Linear Regression
Polynomial regression
Stepwise Regression
Binary logistic regression
Cox proportional-hazards regression
Nonparametric statistics
2x2 Tables
Rank Correlations
Comparing two independent samples
Comparing multiple independent samples
Comparing two dependent samples
Comparing multiple dependent samples
Cochran Q Test
Time Series/Forecasting
Autocorrelation and Partial AC
Moving Average
Interrupted Series Analysis
Survival Analysis
Cox proportional-hazards regression
Probit analysis
Charts
Control Charts
Tutorial On Chart Building
Function Reference
All Functions
Math
General
Statistical
Financial
Customizing StatPlus
General
View
Saving
Add-ons
Other
About AnalystSoft

Customizing StatPlus

Run the Service→Parameters.. command.
Please note: changes will take effect after pressing the OK button.

General

Remember files count up to  - the maximum number of files that will be displayed on a task pane/under File menu (no more than 13).To clear history, press the Clear list button.

To change the interface language, use Interface language drop-down list.

 

Sheets in new workbook - sets the number of sheets in an empty book (created when you call File>New Document). The procedure does not affect the templates.

Default font - a default font for a cell in a new sheet.

Default file location - folder that is shown in the open/save document dialogues. Program also remembers the last used folder.

Auto-change cell type on input - if checked, the program will automatically change a cell type. Example:

   

Entered Cell Type Changed To
Total String
128 Double
128.0 Double
12.05.2003 Date/Time

Enabling this checkbox is useful when you need to control data type. For entering text into
the "numeric" cell, use the formula bar.
 

View

 

 

Show

 

 task pane at startup - if checked, the task pane will be shown at startup.

 formula bar - if checked, the formula bar will be shown at startup.

 status bar - if checked, the status bar will be shown at startup.

 assistant - if checked, the program will use the assistance feature as in Microsoft* Office*.
Requires Microsoft* Agent 2.0 or higher and Merlin character installed in %WINDOWS\msagent\chars\ folder. The Assistant properties button is enabled after the assistant is loaded.

 splash screen at start-up - if checked, the splash screen (window with program's logotype) will be shown at start-up.

 use system "themes" - if checked, program tries to use OS themes

 Buttons will be shown as:

 

 

use system "themes"Microsoft* Windows* 95/98/Me/NT 4/2000/Server 2003/XP
(themes service are disabled)
Microsoft* Windows* XP*
(themes service are enabled)
 

 

Comments

               Cells with comment will be displayed as

don't show 

 

only indicator 

 

comments and indicator 

 

Window settings

 use single-window interface - if checked, the program will use the interface with only one window.

 If you want the opened/created book to be displayed in a new window, disable the only when document is not modified checkbox.

 

 The program actions when a user creates or opens a document (under different actions)

 

use single-window interface

only when document is not modified

document was not modified
(after the last save)

document was modified
(after the last save)

New window will be opened

New window will be opened

The program will open/create
the document in the
same window

The program will ask user about saving the current document, and will open/create a document in the same window

The program will open/create document in the same window

New window will be opened

                       

Saving

Save document for restoring every x minutes - if checked, the program will save document every x minutes (since last saving). To restore an automatically saved document(s), close all copies of the program, and restart the program. Such documents will be saved in the "Recovered" folder (which is located inside the program folder), and you will be asked to open this folder via Explorer:

Add-ons

     This tab allows the configuration of installed add-ons.

Other

Calculation - if automatic is selected, all formulae will be recalculated after editing a cell .

Significance level – selects the default value of the significance level, which is used in some statistical procedures.

Percent correction in probit analysis (Finney Method) - selects percent correction for the probit-analysis procedure.

Precision - specifies number of digits beyond the decimal point. This feature is used in reports and does not affect calculations accuracy!

Don't show trailing zeros - if checked, trailing zeros will not be show at output.

E.g. if we have number 1,02300000. Precision = 5.

Don't show trailing zerosView

1,02300

1,023

Applying Percent-style cell results

Percent-style cell for probabilitiesView