The Amiga has gained many powerful applications over recent years. The one
program this machine doesn't possess is a decent data analysis program. PC and
Mac have SPSS and Minitab for example.
I wrote this program a couple of years ago while I was working as a Stats
tutor. It was aimed at relative novices to data analysis, such as social
science students, who were required to use tests during the course of their
practical studies. I also felt that mainstream packages were unnecessarily
unfriendly to use. Hence EasySTAT was an attempt to produce a user-friendly
statistics package.
This program was written using AMOS Pro, although I tried to make the
interface as Workbench-like as possible. This version includes most commonly
used tests such as Student's t, ANOVA, correlation and Chi-Square. Data must
be entered using the internal data editor.
Some key features are missing. Most notably no sigificance values are computed on
any of the tests except Chi-Square, although these can be easily referenced
from tables in any Stats text book. I have actually developed a method of
computing accurate p-values and this will be implemented in the next revision.
This program is mailware. If the response is good, I shall begin work on an
improved version. I will rewrite the code in Blitz basic using a standard
GadTools interface. I will also use a modular design so that test code can be
added simply as I develop it.
Finally, you may notice the lack of docs in this archive. All instructions
are provided internally by means of an on-line help system (check the menu).
Cheers,
Tim Cribbin
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