List of files supplied

EASISTAT.EXE

is the statistics program which carries out analyses.

EXAMPLE.DAT

is an example data file and is used by the demonstration file called DEMO. Although there is no need to, you may be interested to know what a few of the column titles refer to and this may help understand the demonstration and examples. The data were collected from a group of patients attending a hospital casualty department. AGE refers to one of five age groups. MSW refers to marital status, OCC to socio-economic class and EMP to employment status. ADD indicates address (roughly in terms of distance from central London). GHQ is a measure of illness filled in by the patient. It has a number of subscales, A, B, C and D which should sum to make TOT. HDA, HDD, CIS and SEV are measures of severity of illness arrived at using different procedures.

DEMO

is an EASISTAT command file which demonstrates many of EASISTAT's features. It requires the file EXAMPLE.DAT. To run it directly from MS-DOS enter the command EASISTAT DEMO or to use it from within EASISTAT provide the instruction INPUT DEMO.

ESSRC.ZIP

contains the source code needed to compile EASISTAT on other platforms.

EASISTAT.DOC

this documentation in Word format.

EASISTAT.HLP

this documentation as a Windows Help file.

EASIHTML.ZIP

zip file of this documentation in HTML format.

READ.ME

contains some brief information about the program and files supplied.