DataDesk Pointers

This is a brief summary of some basics of DataDesk - See the fine book

Learning Data Analysis with DATADESK

by Paul Velleman for much more complete descriptions.

Editing and Entering Data
Layouts are used to assemble graphs, comments and results in one window.
Printing and Saving Paper
Scratchpads are a place to write in descriptions, or to do computations.
Plotting
Selecting
Importing and Exporting data from and to other programs.
Sorting and Ranking
Text Font Size resetting.
Summary Computations
Derived Variables allow you to do a wide range of computations on each case of a relation.
Generating Data following some pattern or distribution is possible.

Last Update: January 28, 1996