wlw2286@isc.rit.edu (Lance Ware) (10/26/90)
A few years back I had a Statistics program called UNIX:STAT, I believe, but I have snce changed machines, etc, and don't hve it anymore. Does anyone know where this program came from (I am pretty sure I FTP'd it)? If anyone can help me locate it I'd appreciate it. Lance -- ************************************************************************ *W.L.Ware LanceWare SYSTEMS* *WLW2286%ritvax.cunyvm.cuny.edu Value Added reseller* *WLW2286%ultb.isc.rit.edu Mac and IBM Access. *
wwm@pmsmam.uucp (Bill Meahan) (10/30/90)
In article <1990Oct25.223804.13113@isc.rit.edu> wlw2286@isc.rit.edu (Lance Ware) writes: >A few years back I had a Statistics program called UNIX:STAT, I believe, >but I have snce changed machines, etc, and don't hve it anymore. Does >anyone know where this program came from (I am pretty sure I FTP'd it)? >If anyone can help me locate it I'd appreciate it. > >Lance > I'd like to find it too. It was a very good package that I liked better than several of the expensive commercial packages around. -- Bill Meahan WA8TZG |"The freedom of human beings is not a condition uunet!mailrus!umich!pmsmam!wwm |but a task. What an absence of shackles means |is our duty to know and to establish our own "I do NOT speak for anyone |limits. It is often more difficult to be free
phd_ivo@gsbacd.uchicago.edu (10/30/90)
There is an almost-PD program, |STAT, which is written by Gary Perlman at cis.ohio-state. It is copyrighted, and he demands payment, but it is ridiculously low (<$50). In my opinion, it hardly covers mailing costs. Sending him email will probably be the best way to get a copy. Also, sci.math.stat has good announcements on such items. /ivo welch ivo@next.agsm.ucla.edu
perlman@giza.cis.ohio-state.edu (Gary Perlman) (10/30/90)
In article <1990Oct29.221237.25451@pmsmam.uucp> wwm@pmsmam.UUCP (Bill Meahan) writes: >In article <1990Oct25.223804.13113@isc.rit.edu> wlw2286@isc.rit.edu (Lance Ware) writes: >>A few years back I had a Statistics program called UNIX:STAT, I believe, >>but I have snce changed machines, etc, and don't hve it anymore. Does >>anyone know where this program came from (I am pretty sure I FTP'd it)? >>If anyone can help me locate it I'd appreciate it. >> >>Lance I hope you didn't ftp it, because that would violate the license. > >I'd like to find it too. It was a very good package that I liked better >than several of the expensive commercial packages around. Well, it is certainly not expensive. You just have to pay for me to mail you a tape or floppies and you can copy the programs to all your machines. |STAT (which runs on UNIX or DOS) is alive and well in Ohio. The current release number is 5.4, dated March 1989, although there have been several minor changes to programs since then. Here is the standard blurb, followed by a list of change notes. |STAT 5.4 DATA MANIPULATION & ANALYSIS PROGRAMS FOR UNIX and MSDOS |STAT is a set of over 20 data manipulation and analysis programs developed by Gary Perlman at the University of California, San Diego and at the Wang Institute of Graduate Studies. The programs are designed with the UNIX philosophy that individual programs should be designed as tools that do one task well and produce output suitable for input via pipes to other programs. Interactive use is supported in the command line interpreter which also provides a programming language for complex analyses. Functions built into many statistical packages (e.g., graphics and editing) are not re-invented in |STAT which delegates such responsibility to standard tools. Typical usage involves a pipeline of transformations of data followed by input to an analysis program, summarized schematically by: INPUT DATA | TRANSFORM | ANALYSIS | OUTPUT RESULTS Data Manipulation Programs: abut join data files beside each other colex column extraction/formatting dm conditional data extraction/transformation dsort multiple key data sorting filter linex line extraction maketrix create matrix format file from free-format input perm permute line order randomly, numerically, alphabetically probdist probability distribution functions ranksort convert data to ranks repeat repeat strings or lines in files reverse reverse lines, columns, or characters series generate an additive series of numbers transpose transpose matrix format input validata verify data file consistency Data Analysis Programs: anova multi-factor analysis of variance calc interactive algebraic modeling calculator contab contingency tables and chi-square desc descriptions, histograms, frequency tables dprime signal detection d' and beta calculations features tabulate features of items oneway one-way anova/t-test with error-bar plots pair paired data statistics, regression, scatterplots rankind rank order analysis for independent conditions rankrel rank order analysis for related conditions regress multiple linear regression and correlation stats simple summary statistics ts time series analysis and plots Package Features: simple input formats (free format field oriented) flexible data manipulation several simple lineprinter plotting options data validation (range and type checking) consistent option conventions with online help runs on any UNIX System (V6, V7, 2.8BSD, 4BSD, System V, etc.) runs on MSDOS 2.0 and 3.0 with 96K (IBM, Wang, AT&T, Epson, etc.) usually less than a few seconds per analysis liberal copyright (but can't be distributed for gain) Notes: UNIX is a trademark of AT&T Bell Laboratories. MSDOS is a trademark of MicroSoft. |STAT is NOT a product of any company or organization. Distribution Conditions: CAREFULLY READ THE FOLLOWING CONDITIONS. IF YOU DO NOT FIND THEM ACCEPTABLE, YOU SHOULD NOT USE |STAT. |STAT IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED. THE USER ASSUMES ALL RISKS OF USING |STAT. THERE IS NO CLAIM OF THE MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. |STAT MAY NOT BE SUITED TO YOUR NEEDS. |STAT MAY NOT RUN ON YOUR PARTICULAR HARDWARE OR SOFTWARE CONFIGURATION. THE AVAILABILITY OF AND PROGRAMS IN |STAT MAY CHANGE WITHOUT NOTICE. NEITHER MANUFACTURER NOR DISTRIBUTOR BEAR RESPONSIBILITY FOR ANY MISHAP OR ECONOMIC LOSS RESULTING THEREFROM OF THE USE OF |STAT EVEN IF THE PROGRAMS PROVE TO BE DEFECTIVE. |STAT IS NOT INTENDED FOR CONSUMER USE. CASUAL USE BY USERS NOT TRAINED IN STATISTICS, OR BY USERS NOT SUPERVISED BY PERSONS TRAINED IN STATISTICS, MUST BE AVOIDED. USERS MUST BE TRAINED AT THEIR OWN EXPENSE TO LEARN TO USE THE PROGRAMS. DATA ANALYSIS PROGRAMS MAKE MANY ASSUMPTIONS ABOUT DATA, THESE ASSUMPTIONS AFFECT THE VALIDITY OF CONCLUSIONS MADE BASED ON THE PROGRAMS. REFERENCES TO APPROPRIATE STATISTICAL SOURCES ARE MADE IN THE |STAT HANDBOOK AND IN THE MANUAL ENTRIES FOR SPECIFIC PROGRAMS. THE PROGRAMS HAVE NOT BEEN VALIDATED FOR LARGE DATASETS, HIGHLY VARIABLE DATA, NOR VERY LARGE NUMBERS. YOU MAY MAKE COPIES OF ANY TANGIBLE FORMS OF |STAT, PROVIDED THAT THERE IS NO MATERIAL GAIN INVOLVED, AND PROVIDED THAT THE INFORMATION IN THIS NOTICE ACCOMPANIES EVERY COPY. YOU MAY DISTRIBUTE COPIES OF |STAT, PROVIDED THAT MASS DISTRIBUTION (SUCH AS ELECTRONIC BULLETIN BOARDS) IS NOT USED. YOU MAY NOT MODIFY THE SOURCE CODE FOR ANY PURPOSES OTHER THAN GETTING THE PROGRAMS TO WORK ON YOUR SYSTEM. ANY COSTS IN COMPILING OR PORTING |STAT TO YOUR SYSTEM ARE YOUR'S ALONE, AND NOT ANY OTHER PARTIES. YOU MAY NOT DISTRIBUTE ANY MODIFIED SOURCE CODE OR DOCUMENTATION TO USERS AT ANY SITES OTHER THAN YOUR OWN. Ordering Information 8/30/89: Carefully read the instructions below. Orders not following them may be be returned or even discarded. All prices include delivery and should be prepaid to G. Perlman. Checks must be in US funds, drawn on a US bank. Orders that demand any terms or conditions other than those in this notice may be returned or discarded. Orders must include a delivery mailing label acceptable to the post office, and international orders must include the country name on the label. UNIX Version of |STAT: $20/$30 Contents: Programs (C language) & Online Manual Entries Format: half inch 9 track mag tape, 1600 bpi tar format Format: 1/4 inch cartridge tape (this version costs $30) MSDOS Version of |STAT: $15 Contents: Preformatted Manuals and Executables Format: 2S/2D DOS 5.25 inch floppy diskettes Format: 1.2 Mbyte HD DOS 5.25 inch floppy diskette MSDOS Source: $10 Contents: C Source Code, Turbo C Project Files, Preformatted Manuals Format: 1.2 Mbyte HD DOS 5.25 inch or 3.5 inch floppy Handbook: $10 Contents: Examples, Reference Materials, CALC & DM Manuals, Manual Entries Format: Typeset Manual (over 100 pages) Gary Perlman Department of Computer and Information Science perlman@cis.ohio-state.edu The Ohio State University 614-292-2566 2036 Neil Avenue Mall Columbus, OH 43210-1277 Key for reading changes to |STAT: [+] new program [-] deleted program [F] new feature [M] modification of existing feature [R] robustness enhancements Recent Changes General updated all code to be ANSI C compatible, source now available on DOS Specific Programs probdist: [F] added -q option for quick random number generation features: [MR] made compatible with other |STAT program options dprime: [FM] added -p option and new I/O formats, repaired file-input colex: [FM] added -c option for fixed column input (like cut) Changes for Release 5.4 March 1989 General Added missing value (NA) handling for most analysis programs Specific Programs pair: [F] added correlation coefficient to plots anova: [F] added sorting for numerical factor labels, DOS LAN support contab: [F] added sorting for numerical factor labels, DOS LAN support [F] added -i option to restrict # of reported interactions ff: [F] added file statistics language to three-part titles calc, dm: [R] added special code to fix Sun conversion software bug features: [+] summarize features of several items Changes for Release 5.3 January 1987 General Random number seeding on MSDOS now uses the system clock; it is never interactive (affects MSDOS dm, perm, probdist). Several rank order analyses are now supported. Specific Programs contab: [M] removed -m option for marginal totals; they are automatic desc [F] added standard deviations of skew and kurtosis linex: [+] for line extraction oneway: [M] removed -w option to request weighted means solution with unweighted solution, -P plotwidth option now requested with -w rankind: [+] analyze rank-order data for independent conditions Median Test, Mann-Whitney U, Kruskal-Wallice H rankrel: [+] analyze rank-order data for related conditions Sign Test, Wilcoxon, Friedman, Spearman Rho probdist: [F] binomial (b N p1/p2) distribution added probdist: [M] output format for verbose option modified ranksort: [F] reversal option added (-r) repeat: [FM] added several new options, changed syntax series: [M] minor syntax changes stats: [M] added standard option parser and -v (verbose) option Changes for Release 5.2 October 1986 General Second Edition of Handbook (with manual entries) Handbook examples now online Manual entries no longer distributed separate from handbook for infinite F ratios, 9999 is used Specific Programs cat: [+] added for MSDOS compatibility colex: [F] formatted output of columns added dm: [R] some new operators added, bugs fixed dm: [F] random seed now follows R[AND] operator dm: [M] no longer checks for non-numerical inputs (use number(si)) dsort: [+] for sorting data files by columns ff: [+] for pagination, simple text formatting fpack: [+] for packing files into plain archives perm: [F] sorting options added regress: [R] improved matrix calculations Changes for Release 5.2 January 1986 General on-line help in most programs (-LOV options) |STAT Handbook and new manual entries on-line manuals on MSDOS Specific Programs probdist: [+] 5 probability distributions with random number generation pof: [-] deleted from distribution (probdist) chisq: [-] deleted from distribution (probdist) contab: [+] crosstabs and chi-square program pair: [F] plotting options added dataplot: [-] deleted from distribution (use pair plotting options) anova: [R] program more robust against invalid designs oneway: [F] error bar plots, unweighted means solution regress: [F] better support for residual plotting (-e option) vincent: [-] no longer distributed (use ts -l option) Changes for Release 5.1 November 1985 General several minor bugs removed full package ported to MSDOS Specific Programs calc: [R] some syntax bugs fixed, ported to MSDOS stats: [+] for simple statistics trans: [-] no longer distributed (dm now on MSDOS) Changes for Release 5.0 March 1985 General reworked to increase portability, reliability, usability most commands now use standard option parser (getopt) [R] all calculations now done in double precision [R] improved error messages [R] better approximations for F-ratios efficiency of I/O improved most programs ported to MSDOS [R] improved random number seeding on UNIX (perm, dm) standard exit status (0) on successful runs version control added Specific Programs regress: [F] partial correlation analysis colex: [+] added as faster alternative to dm trans: [+] added as alternative to dm (later dropped) -- Name: Gary Perlman | Computer and Information Science Department Email: perlman@cis.ohio-state.edu | Ohio State University, 228 Bolz Hall Phone: 614-292-2566 | 2036 Neil Avenue Mall Fax: 614-785-9837 or 292-9021 | Columbus, OH 43210-1277 USA
emv@math.lsa.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti) (10/30/90)
It's called |STAT now, last info I have on it is about $20 or $30 for the sources, $10 for the manual, from Gary Perlman (perlman@cis.ohio-state.edu). phone 614-292-2566. You may make copies of it but you can't put it up for FTP, there should be no FTP site for it. --Ed