Entering a command

Here is the list of commands available (it is displayed by EASISTAT when the HELP command is selected):

Help                                  Titles
Summary [ranks] col [if cond]         Data [save] [filename]
List [if cond or Variables]           Chisq [Fish] [Num] [cols rows]
Wilcoxon [S] [col]                    Ttest [paired]
Anova [N] [col]                       Kendall's [col col]
Regress [col col [col]]               Multiple regression [col [col]]
Component analysis                    Narrow cond
Widen [cond]                          Arithmetic [expression]
New [col or row or next]              Label [col [name]]
Format [col or default [width dec]]   Derive [col [expression]]
Delete [col or row or all]            Echo
Input [filename or close]             Output [filename or close]
Log [filename or close]               Sort [d[own]] [col]
Pause                                 System [command]
Limits [cl]                           Copy [lc,tr,rc,br,new lc,new tr]
Quit

To select one of these commands when asked simply type in the first part of the first word of the name of the command. You do not have to type in the whole word. EASISTAT will select the first command from the above list that matches the letters you have typed. So to select the SUMMARY command you could type:

SUMMARY

or:

SUM

or:

Note that if you type:

you will get the WILCOXON command and not the WIDEN command. If you want the WIDEN command you would have to type at least:

WID

Remember everything can be typed in upper or lower case, or a mixture. So:

is just as good as:

SUMMARY

To use the same example given above, one could type:

S RANKS C1 IF (C2-C3)<7

or:

sum ranks c1 if (c2-c3)<7

and achieve just the same result.

When the format of a command is described in this manual, square brackets are put round the optional letters of the command name, e.g.:

S[ummary]
Wid[en]