perlman@wanginst.UUCP (Gary Perlman) (11/04/85)
PUBLIC DOMAIN STATISTICS FOR MSDOS Thanks to my efforts with Fred Horan at Cornell University, I am pleased to announce the release of UNIX|STAT 5.1 on MSDOS. With very few exceptions, the programs are functionally identical to those running on UNIX. Later in this message are the contents of the three double-sided double density 360K diskettes that make up the distribution. The CPU requirements are 96K or better. Hard disks are preferred, of course, but the programs are useful with just floppy drives. The operating system requirement is vanilla MSDOS, which means the programs will run on IBM PC's (all models), AT&T PC's running MSDOS, Wang PC's, and probably others (which I have not yet tried). To get your floppy diskettes and paper documentation, here is what you do. Read carefully, because I will not be devoting much effort to explaining why I could not fill incorrect requests. To right-thinking and reponsible persons, I apologize for the tone of the instructions, but I am sure YOU can understand what problems I have faced sending out over 400 mag tapes over the past five years. I do not intend to face the same problems with the MSDOS distribution. 1. Send me a check or money order in US funds for $15. It should be made out to me personally. Personal notes and invoices are not acceptable. There is no company behind this, which explains why the distribution is $15. Don't give me sob stories about all the paperwork involved in getting a company/government check made out to a non-entity; you can fork over the $15 yourself. This cost applies worldwide, so people in other countries need not send more. The cost also covers me for later releases that will have four or five floppies. 2. Include your return mailing address in a block format such as you will see right below. People from foreign countries and people with obscure letterhead should not assume I am willing to decipher countries or addresses. Delivery is only via the postal service, so all you US government agencies should avoid wasting my tax dollars on Federal Express. That should not be too hard, but I am certain that people will botch it up. You may request more detailed information by writing to me. Current UNIX|STAT users should not bother. The packages are almost identical. Okay, here is what I want your addresses to look like. Non-conformity will cost you at least a week, maybe a month of extra delivery time. Gary Perlman School of Information Technology Wang Institute of Graduate Studies Tyngsboro, MA 01879 USA UNIX|STAT 5.1 on MSDOS Sunday, 3 November 1985 The MSDOS distribution of UNIX|STAT should run on any MSDOS system. The main requirement is that there is enough memory to hold the largest programs: 96 Kbytes. Many programs allocate memory as it is needed, so the size of problems that can be analyzed may depend on the amount of memory available. Diskette Contents TRANSFORM (conditional extractions and transformations) abut formatted printing of corresponding file lines colex column/field extraction dm data manipulation, conditional transformations maketrix format a file into a matrix type file perm randomly permute lines repeat repeat a string or file reverse reverse lines, fields, characters in lines series generate a series of numbers transpose transpose matrix type file of strings, numbers validata validate, report columnar file for consistency ANALYSIS (summary/inferential statistics, simple graphics) anova multi-factor analysis of variance desc describing a single data distribution oneway one way analysis of variance or t-test pair paired data points analysis and plots regress multivariate linear regression and correlation stats print summary statistics ts time series analysis MATH PSYCH (mathematical utility and psychological models) calc algebraic formula calculator with variables critf probability to F-ratio conversion dataplot plot paired data dm data manipulation, conditional transformations dprime compute d' and beta for signal detection data perm randomly permute lines pof F-ratio to probability conversion function series generate a series of numbers vincent vincentizing of data from files DISCLAIMER SECTION: UNIX is a trademark of Bell Telephone Laboratories, Inc. MSDOS is a trademark of MicroSoft Corporation. IBM is a trademark of International Business Machines ... and so on UNIX|STAT is not a product of any company or organization UNIX|STAT is public domain software, but it may not be copied for material gain. -- Gary Perlman Wang Institute Tyngsboro, MA 01879 (617) 649-9731 UUCP: decvax!wanginst!perlman CSNET: perlman@wanginst