School Stat V2.0.4

SchoolStat™ ReadMe File Welcome to SchoolStat™ 2! This is a shareware program containing interactive statistical software. Thanks to all the users of earlier versions who have faithfully tested and suggested, leading to this new and improved version containing ANOVA and other goodies for the first time! This version (2.0.4) corrects many initial version 2.0 bugs and hopefully is stable on all Macs running system 6.0.5 and 7. Please try it, and tell me if it doesn't work! SchoolStat is designed primarily for schools (hence the name!), especially teachers who wish to show how probability distributions can be brought alive with Macintosh graphics. It goes much further though, and has a spreadsheet, sorting, arithmetic and mathematical transformations (including N scores), statistical tests including descriptive statistics, confidence intervals, paired and independent comparisons and introductory ANOVA (parametric and non-parametric), correlations, linear regression, contingency tables, and more. It has a graphing facility for scatterplots, histograms, boxplots, stem and leaf diagrams, and pie charts. A log window keeps tally of your analyses. It accepts 30 columns by 1000 data points in each and will perform any of the functions on your own data. It includes both static probability tables (eg normal, inverse normal, t- and F-distribution, chi-square distribution, and others) and active tables which will plot the distributions and fill in the specified (by the user) probabilities as visible areas under the actual curve. These are in real time and have to be seen to be believed! In addition, you can create simulated distributions (saves typing in data for examples!), and perform odds ratio relative risk and sensitivity/specificity computations. A fully interactive help system is available (modeless windows) at all times accessed from the Apple menu (Command-/). I have failed in my attempts to get this published formally (but I still dont know why, since everyone has “liked” it so far!), and so offer it for shareware in the hope that it will be useful to schools, first and second year colleges in statistical instruction. Please feel free to offer me suggestions, via my email, and if you like and use it, please send me the shareware fee of $25 (plus shipping and handling). If there is continuing interest, my next plans were for multiple regression, further ANOVAs and include a more flexible spreadsheet (allowing categorical and ordinal data), but I will hone it into any shape suggested. SchoolStat™ should be considered a competitor for MiniTab or StatView Student but with the friendly Mac interface and without the price tag. Compatibility: It is compatible with Macintoshes with system 6.05 and above, including system 7, and will run on any screen depth, though to get flicker free drawing in the Active Tables, you must have Color QuickDraw installed in your system folder. It runs on Mac Pluses & SEs to PowerBooks, LC IIIs and Quadras. But note…