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
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