Introduction

How to Use this Document

This document is intended to introduce prospective researchers to SYSTAT for Windows, which currently runs under Windows 95/98/NT 4/2000/XP. Those who do not own a personal copy of SYSTAT for Windows may access the software from various Student Technology Centers at IU. Vendor-supplied documents are available for reference at the Swain Hall, Business/SPEA and Education Libraries' Reserve Collections, IUPUI University Library, and at the UITS Center for Statistical and Mathematical Computing (Stat/Math Center). Contact the UITS Stat/Math Center if you are interested in leasing SPSS for Windows to install on IU owned PCs at an educational discount.

What is SYSTAT?

SYSTAT is a comprehensive, general purpose, easy to use, and highly integrated statistical software package most popularly used from microcomputers. SYSTAT includes basic statistics (e.g., descriptive statistics, frequencies, crosstabs, correlations) and advanced statistics (e.g., regression, ANOVA, MANOVA, factor analysis, cluster analysis, discriminant analysis, time series). SYSTAT has an excellent graphics interface for data visualization, is quick and easy to use for exploratory work, and has extensive options for presentation graphics.

SYSTAT for Windows is a full-fledged Windows application; just point and click. You can do most of your work through menus and dialog boxes with SYSTAT for Windows. SYSTAT's Quick buttons give you simple, single-click short cuts to common statistical analysis. In SYSTAT for Windows, each type of task happens in its own window -- Main, Data, and Graph. Each Window has its own menu bar with submenus. The Window menu controls the windows used in SYSTAT. To switch windows, or to make a window active you may select the window of your choice from the Windows' taskbar at the bottom of the screen. SYSTAT output can be viewed onscreen and cut, copied and pasted to other Windows applications. Results and graphs can be edited. You can select from a wide range of fonts, character sizes, and colors. Data may be entered into a spreadsheet-like editor. You can open your data into SYSTAT from free or fixed-format ASCII files, or from spreadsheet or database files in Excel or dBase formats. You can even read SPSS or BMDP system files directly. You can also export files to the same formats.

Hardware and Software Requirements

• Microsoft Windows 95/98/NT 4/2000/XP
• Pentium/clone or above
• 64 MB RAM (minimum)
• 90 MB hard disk space
• CD Drive required for installation of program
• SVGA monitor

How to start a SYSTAT session

To start a SYSTAT session under Windows XP, from any of the UITS Student Technology Centers:

1. Log on to an available workstation
2. Click the Start button
3. Click and drag Programs --> Statistics and Math --> Systat 10.2.01

Now you are ready for SYSTAT computing.