By Dale Farris, Secretary
Golden Triangle PC Club
October 2002

Program Overview

SYSTAT 10.2 is one of the most powerful statistical and graphical analysis packages now on the market. While some may think Microsoft's Excel provides all the data graphing capabilities they will ever need, many computer users regularly need more powerful statistical analysis capability than is built into Excel. Businesses with a major commitment to quality control and continuous improvement require constant sampling of their product specifications to produce data that must be diligently managed by a team of engineers and other staff with the technical skills and knowledge to accurately perform these tests and correctly interpret the results. A spreadsheet alone cannot meet the needs of these professionals. Instead, they turn to highly specialized, powerful statistical analysis packages like SYSTAT.

Professionals involved in medical research also need such powerful software to handle the research tools and techniques that are essential in being able to make carefully reasoned decisions based on data produced in their testing processes. In addition, higher level students will likely find themselves regularly involved in the design and implementation of research projects, and they too need SYSTAT to help them with the important statistical analysis of the results of the data gathering phase of their project. This analysis of research data is a good example of how important it is to integrate specialized statistical analysis software programs in these organizations and for these purposes. This is where the SYSTAT 10.2 program will provide the quality tool needed by these sophisticated computer users.


What's New in v. 10.2?

• Windows 2000 support
• Command File Editor
• Ridge Regression
• Rank Regression
• Post-hoc Tests for Repeated Measures
• N-tiles and Percentiles
• Basic Statistics for Cross Tabulations Module BMDP Support
• Excel Import

Visualize Your Data With More Graphing Capabilities

SYSTAT offers more scientific and technical graphing options than any other desktop statistics package I've seen. With SYSTAT you can compare subgroups, overlay charts, transform coordinates, add geographic projections, change colors, symbols and more to create insightful presentations. Change graph locations, and just point-and-click to alter axis labels, scales, colors and symbols.

Create unique graphs that bring out the true meaning in your data with advanced chart options, including normal and kernel densities, multiplots, maps, Voronoi tessellations, function plots, contours, scatter plot matrices with 20 diagonal density choices, and 126 non-parametric smoothing options, just to name a few. Speed up your analysis by rotating your 3-D graphs to visually determine the perfect power or log transformation to normalize your data using the Dynamic Explorer to speed up your analysis.

If some or all of these tools are unfamiliar to readers, then SYSTAT is not the tool for you. However, readers with a sound knowledge of and frequent experience with using these sophisticated statistical analysis tools will find SYSTAT a super tool that will greatly assist their work.


Increase Your Analytical Power With More Statistics

With SYSTAT, you will never have to worry about finding the right statistic to use in your data analysis. Robust algorithms from leading statisticians give meaningful results to your analysis, even with extreme data. You can fit regression models in nested, 2-level data when assumptions of independent observations are violated and the estimates from standard least squares general linear model (GLM) are suspect. You can create missing value estimates using regression-based point estimation or an EM algorithm, and then save the data or the triangular matrix as input to GLM, ANOVA or other models.

You can also analyze geostatistical data with deep spatial statistics capabilities, including 2-D and 3-D Variogram and Kriging. Obtain complete distributions and standard errors using SYSTAT's bootstrapping capability implemented globally across 21 statistical procedures, even when normality assumptions are violated and no model is available.


Get Meaningful Results With Less Effort

Have you tired of extravagant user interfaces slowing you down? Stalled by difficult programming languages? SYSTAT's intuitive Windows interface and flexible command language are designed to make your research more efficient.

You can easily locate advanced options through clear, comprehensive dialogs. Type commands directly into SYSTAT's interactive command window to fly through your analyses. Quickly navigate through detailed results using the browser-style Output Organizer. Make dramatic changes in your analysis with a few keystrokes.

SYSTAT's command language is interactive, powerful, and easy to learn. Write commands using plain English with minimal, forgiving syntax that is consistent across all modules. Instantly visualize your results with SYSTAT's Quickgraphs, produced automatically by most statistical procedures to provide immediate and intuitive feedback. Completely Automate Your Analysis

Speed up your data analyses with SYSTAT's flexible command language that provides complete coverage of menu-based functionality. Quickly run the same analysis on different data using token variables in command templates. Each time you run the command file, you'll be prompted to select a variable to replace the token. Create command files in no time!

Execute functions using the menus and dialog selections, while the command log tracks your steps. Simply save the command log script to rerun your analysis. Track and report your statistical methodology to monitoring agencies using the command log. Create compelling reports by combining formatted statistical output with publication-quality graphs in SYSTAT's rich text output window then automate them!


More Graphs

SYSTAT offers more graph types and options than any other desktop statistics package. Create insightful presentations with advanced chart types, such as maps, multiplots, and kernel densities. These are but a few of the many, many advance chart capabilities built into SYSTAT that really indicate the excellence that has been coded in this program. Speed up your analysis with SYSTAT's interactive graphic tools. Simply point-and-click to perfect your graph's appearance.


More Statistics

Whether you are looking for an all-in-one tool, or an advanced addition to your statistical library, you'll never have to worry about finding the right statistic or perfect graphic for the specific needs of your research. SYSTAT delivers over 15 years of experience in statistical algorithms written by leading statisticians.


Less Effort

Had enough of difficult programming languages or elaborate interface designs? SYSTAT's intuitive Windows interface and flexible command language are designed to make your research more efficient. Quickly locate advanced options through clear, comprehensive dialogs. Fly through your analysis with interactive commands, and instantly visualize your results with SYSTAT's QuickGraphs.

This program will support users as it automatically modifies processes to find the best results. You tell the program the objective you want to obtain, then let the PC do the work. The program automatically seeks a course of action that will optimize your entire system's performance.