Learning Data Analysis with Data Disk

1. Introduction: How To Find Your Way In This Book; Data Desk and Your Statistics Course; Data Desk and Your Statistics Text; What Computing Background Do I Need?; A Brief History of Statistics Software; The Macintosh Revolution; Appendix IA Macintosh Terms and Operations. 2. Basic Concepts: The Data Desktop; Menus and Submenus; Datafiles; Windows; Variables; Bundles; The Results Bundle Selecting; Output Records and Plots. 3. Data Desk Concepts: Derived Variables; Information Records; Scratch Pads; HyperViews; Updating Windows; Dependencies; Leaving Data Desk; The Clipboard; Selecting Variables; Datafile Details; Memory Requirements. Appendices: 3A Hints and Shortcuts; 3B Differences between the Data Desktop and the Finder Desktop; 3C Cold, Hot, and Warm Objects; 3D SANE; 3E Data Desk Limits. 4. Data: Basic Concepts; Variables, Cases, and Data Structure; Missing Data; Infinities and NaN's; Outliers, Blunders, and Rogues; Numbers and Numerals. Appendix 4A Kinds of Data; Appendix 4B Matrices, Tables, and Bundles. 5. Entering and Editing Data: Entering Data for One Variable; Editing a Variable; Extended and Discontinuous Selection; Editing Several Variables; The Editing Sequence; Moving Around; Cutting, Copying, and Pasting; Undo; Unlinking Windows; Scrolling; Filling and Inserting; Managing Windows; Details of Editing; Shifting Cases; More on Linking; Finding and Replacing Cases; Store and Revert; Printing Variables; Example; Example: Editing Data. Appendix 5A Configuring Data Editing. 6. (Omitted in Student Version). 7. Simple Summaries: Measures of Centre; Example; Measures of Spread; Order Statistics; General Summaries; Moments; Using Summary Statistics; Hyper views. Appendix 7A: The Biweight, a Robust Center. 8 Displaying Data: Data Analysis Displays; Plotting Conventions; Histograms; Recentering and Rescaiing Histograms; Dotplots; Dotplots of Several Groups; Boxplots; Boxplots and Inference; Bar Charts; Pie Charts; Scatterplots; Lineplots Normal Probability Plots. Appendix 8A Boxplot Definitions; Appendix 8B Probability Plots. 9. Working with Displays: Chapter Organization; Organization of Features and Commands in Data Desk; Basic Plot Actions; Select; Link; Brush and Slice; Identity; Move; Isolate; Resize. Appendix 9A Plot Tool Shortcuts. 10. Brushing and Slicing: Brushing and Slicing; Principles of Brushing and Slicing. 11. Derived Variables: The Transform Submenus; General Derived Variable Expressions; Expression Conventions; Dependencies; Identifying Variables by Name; Working with Open Derived Variables; Re-expressing Data to Improve Analyses Example; Indicator Variables and Logical Expressions; Common Errors and How to avoid Them. Appendix 11A Derived Variable Expressions; Appendix 11B Casewise Functions; Appendix 11C Collapsing Functions. 12. Manipulating Variables Sorting; Ranking; Generating Patterned Variables; Appending and Splitting Variables; Duplicating Icons; Selectors; Copying and Printing Results.