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└─⟦87ddcff64⟧ Bits:30001253 CPHDIST85 Tape, 1985 Autumn Conference Copenhagen
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.TH VINCENT 1 "March 5, 1985" "UNIX|STAT 5.0" "UNIX User's Manual" .SH NAME vincent \- vincentizing of data from files .SH SYNOPSIS .B vincent n file1 file2 ... .SH DESCRIPTION .I Vincent is useful for looking at trends over time/trials in data. .I Vincent takes as arguments a series of files of numbers. The filename ``-'' can be used to read from the standard input. For each file, .I vincent divides the series of numbers into \fIn\fR equal parts using linear interpolation and prints the means for each part (called a vincentile). For example, .ce vincent 5 foo bar will print the means for each fifth of the files "foo" and "bar." For each file argument, .I vincent prints the number of points read in from that file, the name of the file, and the means for each of the ``vincentiles'' you have asked for. .PP .I Vincent is useful for comparing series of different lengths. This was its original use in mathematical psychology some decades ago. See the Handbook of Mathematical Psychology, by, among others, Pat Suppes for a thrilling discussion. .SH AUTHOR Gary Perlman .SH SEE\ ALSO unixstat(1), ts(1) .br The program is named after S. B. Vincent who suggested a 4-tile version of the procedure. You can look up the original source in his 1912 paper, The function of the vibrassae in the behavior of the white rat. .I "Behavior Monographs." .SH KEYWORDS statistics, data analysis