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STATGRAPHICS Plus Version 5.0
November, 2000
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The following information supplements the User Manual and the
On-Line Help.
Contents:
A) Before You Start...
B) Installing the Software
C) Manuals
D) Online Manuals
E) Preferences and Graphics Options
F) StatFolio
G) StatGallery
H) StatReporter
I) Print Drivers
J) Print Preview
K) Quality and Design
L) ODBC
M) Miscellaneous
N) StatPublish
0) StatFolio Start-up Scripts
P) Support Information
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A) Before You Start...
STATGRAPHICS Plus Version 5.0 will only run on a true 32-bit
operating system -- Windows 95/98, Windows NT, or Windows 2000.
You must have at least 65 MB of space available on your
hard drive to hold the program files, documentation, and sample
data files. A minimum of 30 MB is required for a minimal install
of only the program files.
A minimum of 32 MB of RAM is required to run STATGRAPHICS Plus
with "average" performance. Complex calculations and graphs
will benefit from additional RAM.
The Version 5.0 CD is composed of 24 installation files. It will
create several subdirectories, including:
- Data, Manuals, and Test Data.
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B) Installing the Software
Version 5.0 of STATGRAPHICS Plus is available on CD. To install
the software:
1. Insert the compact disc into the CD-ROM drive.
2. On most systems, the setup program will start up automatically.
If it does not, in Windows Explorer, double click on SETUP.EXE
from the CD-ROM drive.
Or
Click on START...RUN and type D:\SETUP.EXE in the text
box (where D: is the CD drive letter, substitute as necessary)
3. Follow the instructions that appear on your screen.
4. If you have purchased an international system, plug the sentinel
device into the parallel port on your computer.
5. If you have purchased an international system and are running
the Windows NT operating system, the first time STATGRAPHICS
Plus is launched, a window will display for installing the
Rainbow sentinel drivers. Click on the Functions menu item,
then select "install sentinel drivers" from the list that
displays. You should then see an information dialog box that
says that the drivers have been successfully installed and that
you need to restart your computer. Restart the Windows NT
operating system to complete the driver configuration.
6. For Network installations, the STATGRAPHICS Plus registry
information must be accessible to each Windows operating system
that runs STATGRAPHICS Plus. If both Windows and STATGRAPHICS
Plus reside on your server, the end-user must have read-write
access to the server's Windows registry. If Windows resides
on the workstation, the STATGRAPHICS Plus registry information
must be written to the Windows registry on the workstation. The
CD Rom contains a program called serial.exe that you must run
on each client workstation to write the serial number to the
registry. Note: Serial.exe can be found on the CD-ROM. Run this
executable from the client machine providing the installation
serial number.
7. When adding users to a Network installation, run AddUsers.exe on
the server. Enter the total number of users in the dialog box
displayed with the Password you were given when you purchased the
additional licenses. AddUsers.exe may be found in the same
directory as the main sgwin.exe.
8. If you enter an incorrect serial number while installing the
program, you do not have to reinstall the entire system. Instead,
copy the file serial.exe from the CD Rom to the directory
containing sgwin.exe. Then execute it and enter the correct
serial number.
You CANNOT run STATGRAPHICS Plus directly from the CD-ROM.
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C) Manuals
If you have the Standard Edition, the only manual you need
is the printed STATGRAPHICS Plus Base System manual.
This manual can also be found online under the Help - Access
On-line Manuals menu item.
If you have Quality and Design, you will need the
STATGRAPHICS Plus Base System manual and the
Quality and Design manuals which are available online under
the Help menu item.
If you have the Professional version or an Enterprise Edition,
you will need the STATGRAPHICS Plus Base System manual and
the Quality and Design, the Multivariate Methods, the Time-Series
Analysis, and the Advanced Regression manuals which are available
online.
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D) Online Manuals
The electronic Version 5 Base System Manual, Quality and Design,
Multivariate Methods, Time-Series Analysis, and Advanced Regression
Manuals are accessible from within STATGRAPHICS under the Help menu
item. The calculations, glossary, and references are also available.
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E) Preferences and Graphics Options
There is a Preferences dialog box under the Edit menu. This
dialog box lets you set system defaults that will be used for all
analyses in all sessions, unless changed.
Preferences for system options, graphics, link behavior and a
directory for temporary files can be set in this dialog box.
Graphics options, including Profiles, are grouped on a tabbed
dialog box. To access Graphics Options, click the right mouse
button on the graph you want to edit.
The default graphic profile for Version 5 is colored lines,
points, and type on a white background. Profiles are also
available for System (color, dark background) and System (black
and white).
Use the Skip option on the Axis dialog box to remove axis labels.
Skipping produces a less cluttered appearance which allows for
clearer display and printing. It is not the same as By which sets
the interval between tickmarks.
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F) StatFolio
When combining StatFolios, you must have the first one open before
selecting Combine.
Closing a StatFolio will close the associated DataSheet,
StatGallery, and StatReporter.
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G) StatGallery
The maximum number of graphic panes allowed in the StatGallery
is one hundred with an unlimited number of text panes. The
StatGallery can cause problems when you are working at or
attempting to go beyond this limit. You may experience a system
crash if you have reached the limit and attempt to exceed the
limit or cut/delete and paste at the limit level.
We recommend limiting the number of graphic panes to 95.
To copy a StatGallery pane to the StatReporter or other
application, click the right mouse button from the StatGallery
and select Copy from the pop-up menu.
In order to use the Paste Special feature, select Picture
(Metafile) or Bitmap. Do NOT select the SGWIN (StatFolios)
format.
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H) StatReporter
The Copy Analysis to StatReporter allows you to copy all of the
text and graphics panes from the active analysis to the
StatReporter with one click of the mouse.
Use Copy and Paste or Paste Special to copy one pane at a time.
In order to use the Paste Special feature, select Picture
(Metafile) or Bitmap. Do NOT select the SGWIN (StatFolios)
format.
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I) Print Drivers
Outdated or poorly programmed third-party video or printer
drivers are sometimes responsible for printing and font
problems. To isolate this possibility, reconfigure your
system with the standard VGA driver supplied with Windows
and then see if the problem recurs. You might also want to
run the Control Panel and select a Microsoft-standard
printer driver as your default printer.
To cooperatively help our combined user bases, several software
manufacturers have constructed a printer driver database for
users to access. This database includes compatible printer
driver information which describes alternate drivers
you can use in place of the one that you're using now,
as well as which setup options you should modify to eliminate
specific problems.
For more detailed information and a link to the database, please
visit:
http://www.leadcommander.com/tib3019.html
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J) Print Preview
If the Print Preview for the StatAdvisor or any other text pane
is unreadable on your system, it may be necessary to change the
default font selection for the pane.
To change the font, maximize the StatAdvisor or text window,
then from the main menu select Edit...Change Text Font.
Courier type fonts are recommended. You may want to experiment
with the fonts available on your system to find the optimal for
your system.
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K) Quality and Design
The Version 5 Quality and Design manuals are available in
electronic format. For more information on how to use this new
format, please refer to Section D of this README file.
Excluded data points for MR(2) charts drop to the lower control
line.
The worksheet spaces for DOE default to 128 lines for large
experiments. Use the pane options to modify the worksheet.
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L) ODBC
We have refined our ODBC implementation in Version 5.
When you query a database, the Query Database
dialog box now includes a field for SCHEMA options for
users that work with shared databases.
When using ODBC to connect to Excel files, STATGRAPHICS
Plus assumes the first row is a variable name and does
not bring in the numbers from the first row. If you
do not have variable names in the first row, put in
a blank row to "import" your data properly.
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M) Miscellaneous
1. The StatWizard displays each time you start STATGRAPHICS Plus.
To change this, de-select the "Show the StatWizard at Startup"
option at the bottom of the initial StatWizard dialog box.
2. The DataSheet is now maximized each time you start STATGRAPHICS
Plus. The DataSheet must be minimized manually. You cannot
change this default. This default does not create memory
problems.
3. When combining StatFolios or DataSheets, you must have the
first one open before selecting Combine.
4. StatLink, by default, looks at the current DataSheet.
5. To de-select the Locate or Zoom feature, click on Select.
6. When using Locate from the right mouse button pop-up menu,
use the mouse for general positioning and then use the arrow
keys for fine-tuning. The arrow keys move the "locate" line
one pixel at a time.
7. The Radar Plot scaling is set from the initial data. If you
have a second plot with a different range of data, create a
new plot by using Plot...Exploratory Plots...Radar/Spider Plot.
We do not recommend changing the variable by accessing the
input dialog box from the first plot.
8. The Data Editor in Version 5 of STATGRAPHICS Plus
has a capacity of 1024 columns by 999,999 rows. In
practice, the limitations on dataset size are determined
by the resources available on your computer. A minimal
configuration (32 MB of RAM and limited virtual
memory on the hard drive) will not permit you to load
large datasets.
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N) StatPublish
When publishing graphs, you have the option to select "Add
interactivity to applets". If selected, users may identify points
on scatterplots by clicking on them. However, the graphs will look
somewhat different than when originally created, and certain
features such as 3-D effects and certain text fonts will not
be supported. To insure that the graphs look identical to when
originally created, do not select this option.
O) StatFolio Start-up Scripts
To open a StatFolio from the Windows "Run" line, enter a statement
such as
sgwin.exe "c:\data\My Statfolio.sgp"
You may also use the Windows "Document" list by double-clicking on
the desired StatFolio.
P) Support Information
See the "How to get Help" card found in the installation
packet. This card contains information on how to obtain help.
Here are some means of communication that you may not be aware of:
- Telephone Support: 301-984-5489
- E-mail Access: answer@manu.com
- Web site: http://www.statgraphics.com
