SigmaPlot

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SigmaPlot^.

 

New - V11.

What's New!

• Complete Advisory Statistical Analysis Features

SigmaPlot is now a complete graphing AND advisory statistics suite. Advanced statistical analysis can now be accomplished without the additional purchase of SigmaStat. SigmaPlot 11 guides users through every step of the analysis and performs powerful statistical analysis without the user being a statistical expert!

• Global Curve Fitting

Past versions of SigmaPlot could perform global curve fits but the procedure was too involved and complicated. SigmaPlot 11 now employs an all new user interface allowing users to easily setup a global curve fit. SigmaPlot 11 also gives users the ability to easily share one or more equation parameters across multiple data sets.

• Improved Standard Curves Macro

In addition to the EC50 value already computed, the user can also compute other user-entered EC values such as EC40 and EC60 and compute them instantly. Two five-parameter logistic functions have also been added and the Dynamic Curve Fitting feature included to help solve difficult curve fitting problems.

• New 2D Vector Plot Graph Type

A 2D Vector plot is a display of a field of vectors in x,y coordinates where both direction and magnitude are represented. SigmaPlot 11 employs a popup dialog box that allows the user to specify arrow properties such as color, line thickness, and arrowhead length and angle. 2D Vector Plots can be used by, but not limited to physicists, climate researchers, and other fields where spatial data includes both direction and magnitude information.

• Improved 3D Graph Customization

In earlier versions of SigmaPlot, almost all objects in a 2D graph were selectable with a mouse click. However, almost all objects in a 3D graph were not. SigmaPlot11 now adds mouse selectability of all 3D graph objects with the ability to customize all 3D objects.

• Pre-Formatted Worksheets

Lets say you'd like to start by selecting a particular kind of graph but you don’t know how to set up the worksheet to achieve it. SigmaPlot 11 lets the user select a graph first and then gives the user a pre-formatted worksheet to structure their data. The data entered into the worksheet is immediately displayed on the graph. This feature can demonstrate to the user the strong relationship between the data format and the graph type.

• New Updated User Interface

SigmaPlot11 now enjoys an updated look and feel across the entire application. Users can also add or prune toolbar features or functions the user decides he's going to use thereby streamlining his customized workspace.

• 100% Vista Compliance

Earlier version of SigmaPlot ran well on Vista except the “Help” menu function which was changed in Vista. SigmaPlot 11 is fully Vista compliant now including support for the SigmaPlot help files.

• Import Excel 2007 Files Directly into SigmaPlot

SigmaPlot 11 adds compatibility for Microsoft Office 2007. Previous versions would not import Excel 2007 files without a conversion step from .xlsx to .xls.

• Automatic Updating of Quick Transforms

Each worksheet can hold a list of user defined transforms that will automatically be re-run whenever the transform input data has changed.

• Import/Export EMF Files

Enhanced Metafile Format (EMF) files are a new and improved 32-bit revision of the WMF format. EMF files have extended functionality over WMF files. SigmaPlot 11 now includes support for importing and exporting 32-bit EMF files.

QUICKLY CREATE THE GRAPH YOU NEED

CHOOSE FROM A WIDE RANGE OF GRAPH TYPES SigmaPlot provides more than 80 different 2D and 3D graph types. From simple 2D scatter plots to compelling contour plots, SigmaPlot gives you the technical graph type you need for your demanding research. To help you see interactions in your 3D data - SigmaPlot powerfully renders multiple intersecting 3D meshes with hidden line removal.		The data analysis tools you need SigmaPlot provides the tools you need to analyze your data easily - from basic statistics to advanced mathematical calculations! Maximize your productivity with SigmaPlot's automation! Easily create macros with SigmaPlot's easy-to-use macro language or with its point-and-click macro recorder!
		EASILY CUSTOMIZE EVERY DETAIL SigmaPlot gives you the flexibility to customize all graph attributes. Double-click on any graph element, and SigmaPlot brings up the Graph Properties dialog. Choose from easy-to-read bitmapped selections. Create standard or asymmetric error bars. Specify different colors, sizes, and symbols for each data point. Insert axis breaks, and much more. Click "Apply" to preview your modifications. Then tab between sections of the dialog to customize your graph further. Put finishing touches on your graphs with the scientific text editor. Annotate your graphs further by pasting equations, symbols, maps and other images into your presentation.
CLEARLY PRESENT SCIENTIFIC IDEAS Compare and contrast trends in your data by creating multiple axes per graph, multiple graphs per page, and multiple pages per worksheet. Layout multiple graphs on a page accurately in no time using built-in templates provided, SigmaPlot's WYSIWYG page layout and zoom features. PUBLISH YOUR WORK ANYWHERE Create stunning slides, incorporate your graphs in reports, further customize your graphs in drawing packages, or send graphs to publishers with SigmaPlot's graphic file export options. Disseminate your graphs on the World Wide Web with the HTML macro! Create customized reports with the Report Editor right within SigmaPlot. SigmaPlot is both an OLE2 container and server. You can use Word's Equation Editor, WordArt, or any other OLE object inside your graph page or your report. Or, embed your graph in any OLE container-word processors, PowerPoint, or graphics programs. Just double click and you can edit your graph directly inside your document.

SigmaPlot features

System Requirements

• Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows 2000 or NT 4.0
• 32 MB or more of RAM
• 20 MB of disk space
• SVGA or better
• To use HTML Help, Internet Explorer 4.01 or later required. WinHelp is also available.

SCIENTIFIC AND ENGINEERING GRAPH TYPES

*New in SigmaPlot 2000

2D

• Scatter - 14 types

• Line - 4 types
• Scatter and Line - 10 types
• Step - 8 types
• Vertical Bar - 2 types
• Horizontal Bar - 2 types
• Vertical, Grouped Bar - 2 types
• Horizontal, Grouped Bar - 2 types
• Vertical, Stacked Bar
• Horizontal, Stacked Bar
• Box - 2 types
• Polar - 3 types
• Contour, line and filled - 2 types *
• Histograms - 6 types
• Ternary - 3 types Time-Series
• Bubble
• Pie
• Control Charts
• Needle
• High-low-close*, Range*, Quartile*
• Quadrant
• Population

3D

• Multiple, intersecting plots with hidden line removal, smooth or discrete shading, transparent or opaque fills, and light source shading
• 3D rotation
• Perspective preview
• Scatter
• Bar
• 3D line - trajectory
• Mesh
• Contour
• Waterfall*

Graphs created through transforms

• Gaussian cumulative distribution
• Area - shading under and between curves
• Z plane design
• Vector
• Kaplan-Meier survival
• Frequency
• Complex Control charts
• User-defined axes

Create Graphs Easily

• Graph Toolbar: select toolbar icon of the graph type and style you want to create a graph or to add additional curves to an existing graph
• Graph Wizard: easy to use, step-by-step wizard for helping you select a graph type and pick data
• Default graph settings: set preferences for graph options to create favorite graphs
• more easily
• Templates: create custom graph page templates to store for easy accessibility
• and future use

Technical axes

• Linear
• Log10
• Natural log
• Probit
• Logit
• Probability
• Reverse
• Ternary percentage
• Ternary unary
• Polar
• Category (text data automatically binned into groups)
• Time and date
• User-defined custom axis to create Arrhenius, Weibel and many others

Axis features

• Control of display, thickness, color, range, and axis breaks
• Offset axes
• Automatic titles
• Multiple axes: Add Axis Wizard for creating multiple axes easily
• Ticks: customize major & minor intervals, in & out orientation, top & bottom location, length, thickness, color, and tick mark selection from column to create custom axes
• Labels: customize prefix, suffix, numeric, and time & date
• Axis breaks: customize symbol, thickness, color, length, gap width, and post break interval

Error bars

• Mean, Median, First and Last values for symbols*
• Standard deviation*, Standard error
• 10th, 25th, 75th, and 90th Percentiles*
• Min and Max*
• 95% or 99% confidence
• Calculate error bars from replicate values across rows*
• User-defined upper and lower error bar values
• One way, two way and asymmetric error bars*

Multiline text editor

• Control font, size, style, color, Greek, multiple levels of superscript & subscript, 360 degree rotation, left, right, & center justification, and line spacing

Grids

• Control of color, line type, thickness, and display of major & minor grids in X, Y, & Z direction

Fills

• Control of pattern and edge color, pattern style, pattern density, and edge thickness Symbols
• Control color, size, shape, layering and the use of letters and numbers in any font as symbols

Reference lines

• Control mean, standard deviation, standard error, user-defined constants, 95% and 99% confidence intervals
• Up to 5 horizontal or vertical lines
• Control of color, line type, and thickness

Drop lines

• Display in any or all X, Y, and Z directions

Legends

• Automatic or manually created
• Legends for regressions, confidence, and prediction intervals
• Turn on and off lines and symbols
• Place line and symbol before or after text

Regression Wizard

• Linear and nonlinear regressions
• Over 100 built-in, graphically-illustrated equations
• Marquardt-Levenberg algorithm with up to 10 independent variables and 25 parameters
• Define constraints, tolerance, step size and iterations
• Automatically determines your initial parameters
• Writes a complete statistical report to your SigmaPlot Notebook
• Automatically graphs your results on new or existing graphs
• Edit code so you can customize the SigmaPlot library of functions or create your own
• Specify the range for the predicted vaules output by curve-fitter*

Function Plotter*

• Plot 2D and 3D functions
• Over 100 2D and 3D built-in, graphically-illustrated equations
• User-defined parameters, scale and range
• Customize the SigmaPlot library of functions or create your own
• Plot functions on new or existing graphs
• Plot multiple different parameter values simultaneously
• Select line properties for each function

Automatic linear regressions

• Up to 10th order with confidence and prediction intervals and regression statistics

Column statistics generated automatically

• Size, sum, mean, minimum, maximum, standard deviation, standard error, skewness, minimum positive, number of missing values, and 95% & 99% confidence intervals

Quick Transforms

• Perform quick mathematical transforms provided in a function palette*

Mathematical transforms

• Histogram
• Normalize ternary data
• Interpolate 3D mesh
• Sorting
• One-way ANOVA
• Fast fourier transforms with filters
• Lowess smoothing
• Differential equations
• Data to RGB-color transform
• Trigonometric and algebraic functions
• Statistics including skewness, 95% and 99% confidence, t-tests
• Random and gaussian random number generation
• Range, accumulation, precision, and more...

2D smoothing routines*

• Negative exponential
• Running average
• Loess
• Running median
• Bisquare
• Inverse square

3D smoothing routines*

• Negative exponential
• Running average
• Loess
• Running median
• Bisquare
• Inverse square
• Inverse distance

Large, scientific worksheets

• Over 32,000 columns by millions of rows
• Handles numeric, text (categorical), and date & time data
• Automatically generate column statistics
• Data sorting
• Rename column and row titles
• Insert color, symbols, line styles and bar patterns
• Insert and delete rows and columns
• Row and column cell clipping and in-place editing
• Independent graphically adjustable row height and column widths
• Missing data handling
• Data point sampling
• Multiple worksheets per session
• Graphical feedback of current curve and datapoint
• Text support of up to 256 characters
• Change the font type and grid colors
• Zoom in and zoom out

Use Excel as worksheet

• With Windows 95, 98, 2000 or NT and, you can use Excel features inside SigmaPlot. Open Excel 2000* spreadsheets directly into Excel inside SigmaPlot. Use Excel in-cell formulas and other Excel data analysis tools on your Excel data.
• Features limited under Windows 3.1 and Excel 5.

SigmaPlot Report Editor

• Cut and paste or use OLE to combine all the important aspects of your analysis into one document. Choose from a wide range of styles, sizes, and colors from any system font. Export to most word processors.

Page layout and annotation options

• OLE 2 container and server
• Automatic or manual legends
• True WYSIWYG
• Multiline text editor
• Multiple curves and plots on one graph
• Multiple axes on one graph
• Arrange graphs with built-in templates*
• Multiple levels of zooming and custom zooming
• Scale graph to any size
• Resize graphic elements proportionally with resizing graph
• Alignment and position tools
• Draw lines, ellipses, boxes, arrows
• Layering options
• Over 16 million custom colors
• Inset graphs inside one another
• Selection of graph objects
• Right-click property editing
• Color schemes
• Paste graphic objects from other programs
• Graph page rulers
• Adjustable snap-to grids
• XY and page coordinate feedback

"Picking from Column" option

• Enter colors, patterns, symbols, line styles, tick mark intervals, tick labels and more directly into your worksheet to customize your graph the way you want. Transforms and "picking from column" allow you to create data dependent color gradients, symbols and sizes.

SigmaPlot Notebook

• Contains SigmaPlot worksheets, Excel worksheets, SigmaPlot Report documents, Regression Wizard equations, graph pages and macros.

Import

• Axon Binary, Axon Text, ASCII Plain, Comma and general import filter, 1-2-3T, Symphony T, Quattro T, Excel, dBASE E, DIF, SigmaPlot for DOS 4.0, 4.1, 5.0, SigmaPlot 1.0, 2.0, and 3.0, 4.0, 5.0 for Windows, SigmaPlot 4.1 and 5.0 for Macintosh data worksheets, SYSTAT, SigmaScan Pro, SigmaScan, SigmaScan Image, Mocha

Export

• ASCII Text, Tabbed, Comma, 1-2-3T, Excel, DIF, SigmaPlot 1.0, 2.0, and 3.0 for Windows, SigmaPlot 5.0 for Macintosh data worksheets, SigmaScan Pro

Export graphs options

• Export an individual graph, a group of graphs and objects, or an entire page
• Different levels of resolution and color depths: EPS, TIFF, JPEG, WMF, BMP
• Export graph page as HTML document (macro)*
• Export graph to PowerPoint Slide (macro)*

Automate routine and complex tasks

• Visual Basic compatible programming using built-in macro language interface
• Macro recorder to save and play-back operations
• Full automation object support - use Visual Basic to create your own SigmaPlot-based applications
• Run built-in macros or create and add your own scripts
• Add menu commands and create dialog boxes

Windows application

• Excel, Word and PowerPoint for Office 2000 and Windows 2000 support*
• ToolTips
• Full 32-bit implementation
• OLE 2 container and server
• Use Excel worksheets inside SigmaPlot
• Uninstaller
• Controls have bitmaps to give feedback about selections
• Right mouse button property editing
• Selection of objects on graph page

 

 

 

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