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                                 |STAT 5.3

                   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
     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

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 NOTE 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 OTHER THAN YOUR OWN.

Ordering Information 2/23/87:

     Carefully read the instructions below.  Orders not following them  may
be  be  returned or even discarded.  All prices include delivery and should
be prepaid to G. Perlman.  Checks must be in US funds, drawn on a US  bank.
Orders  that demand any terms or conditions other than those in this notice
may be returned or discarded.  Orders must include a delivery mailing label
acceptable  to  the  post office, and international orders must include the
country name on the label.

UNIX Version of |STAT: $20
     Contents: Programs (C language) & Online Manual Entries
     Format:   half inch 9 track mag tape, 1600 bpi tar format
MSDOS Version of |STAT: $15
     Contents: Preformatted Manuals and Executables
     Format:   2S/2D MSDOS 5.25 inch floppy diskettes
Handbook: $10
     Contents: Examples, Reference Materials, CALC & DM Manuals, Manual Entries
     Format:   Typeset Manual (over 100 pages)

Gary Perlman
Wang Institute
Tyng Road
Tyngsboro, MA 01879 USA
UUCP: decvax!wanginst!perlman.uucp
CSNET: perlman@wanginst.csnet
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