Introduction

The main components of the Visual Statistics Studio are Logical, Scalar, Vector, and Matrix modules. The foundation stratum of the Vector module is the vector workspace, containing the data matrix and its associated descriptive statistics. Menus, information stripes, marginal referents of the data matrix (Attributes and Entities), the data matrix proper, and its associated descriptive statistics are visible on the vector display.

The vector display uses a non-scrollable canvass window with data and other information painted on it. In the case of large data matrices, only the upper left section of the data matrix is visible on the vector display. In these cases, the entire data matrix and its associated descriptive statistics can be observed by clicking the Modules - Vector command.

The Vector Console displays data on a scrollable spreadsheet, where data elements are located within the spreadsheet cells. Most programs within this category, as SPSS or Microsoft Excel, use the vector console type of display. However, if you'll work with the Visual Statistics Studio, you'll soon discover the many advantages the canvass window has to offer.

If you clicked on the Restore a Project command on the Visual Statistics Studio cover,

If you clicked on the Open a New Project command, the invoked vector display will be empty.

You can enter variable X [1 2 3 4 5] by selecting (Data, Univariate Prototypes, Continuous Variables) and by clicking the Accept command.

By clicking the Accept command or by pressing the CTRL + ALT + I keys, data will be transferred to the vector workspace. Before entering data, make sure that cursor is outside of cells containing numbers. For the above example, before clicking the Accept command, the cursor should be on line 6 (marked with the pencil tip).

The Visual Statistics Studio textbooks, guides, and manuals are written by using the method of smallest possible data sets. These data sets are stored under (Data, Univariate Prototypes), (Data, Bivariate Prototypes), (Data, Multivariate Prototypes), are located under the Designs menu and on the (Project, Open Project Files) menu. Data for distributions and function are stored under the Arguments menu.

If you entered variable X [1 2 3 4 5] and would like to save it, click on the (Project, Save Project) commands.

When working with the Studio, the most flexible mode is to invoke the Studio directly, without the cover page, and with the current data set on the vector display. To select this mode, click on the (Information, Initial Display) commands

and on the right-most command Invoke Studio Directly and Restore the Previous Project.. Next time you invoke the studio, it will open directly, without the cover animations, and with the saved data on the vector display.

The communication between the Scalar and Vector modules is via the Transfers menu. Selecting (Transfers, Descriptors to the scalar module),

marking the descriptive statistics you would like to transfer (for the example the Arithmetic Mean and the True Variance), and by clicking the Accept command

you will be able to indicate for which variable(s) the selected descriptors should be transferred. For the example the selected variable was X1 and the selected descriptors were the Arithmetic Mean and the True Variance. These descriptors of the variable X1 are displayed in the above screen print of the scalar module. The left click on the scalar module command will open the Folded scalar module. The right click on the scalar module command will bring out the Unfolded scalar module.

There are several 'invisible' and implicit, unlabelled commands. Count the lines from the top of the Visual Statistics Studio.

[Line 1] On the left side of this line is the red C icon. Clicking on the X command on the right of this line will close the Visual Statistics Studio. Data on the vector display will not be saved and the screen placement and size of the Visual Statistics Studio will not be preserved.

[Line 2] On this line there are Project, Data, Sample ... Exit menus. Clicking on the Exit command will close the Visual Statistics Studio. Data on the vector display will be saved and the screen placement and size of the Visual Statistics Studio will be preserved.

[Line 3] Clicking on this line will allow you to show/hide the project name. It will also display the dimensions of data and the dimensions of the vector workspace.

[Line 4] On the fourth line there are menus invoking Modules - Logical Scalar Vector Matrix and Charts. Right and left clicks on the Logical, Scalar, Vector, and Matrix modules will open these modules in either the folded or the unfolded form.

[Line 5] Clicking on the fifth line, right from the 'Contract' and 'Expand' commands will erase an occasional message, and change the top alphabetic column labels to numeric and vice versa.

[Line 6 - Left Side] Clicking on the blank space on the left of the Attributes command will save the screen placement and size of the Visual Statistics Studio. This command will also refresh the screen.

[Line 6 - Right Side] Click on the 'Attributes' to assign serial names to the columns' attributes.

[Line 7 - Left Column] Click on the 'Entities' to assign serial names to the rows' entities.

[Line 7 - Right Columns] Click on the labels of attributes to the right of the Entities command to edit the variable names.

[Lines 8 ... - Left Column] Click on the space below the 'Entities' command to assign specific names to the rows of the vector display.

[Descriptive Statistics Line] Clicking the right mouse button one the 'Descriptive Statistics' command will close the 'Standard Variance' row. "