StatSoft User Forum

Welcome

awaner — 2009-07-21T17:44:11Z

This forum is established as a service to the STATISTICA user community worldwide, to facilitate the exchange of ideas, applications, and solutions related to the STATISTICA line of software. Anyone can read posts. However, in order to protect it from spam, registration is necessary to post messages on the Forum.

Technical Support Options

kbeasley — 2008-06-30T22:25:00Z

Greetings, Thank you for using the StatSoft User Forum. We appreciate you all utilizing this forum as a place for exchange between users of STATISTICA. However, this is not a technical support forum. If you have technical questions about the usage of the STATISTICA software or any problems you may be encountering, please contact your regional StatSoft office. - If you live in the United States or Canada, you can send an e-mail to 'mailto:support@statsoft.com'>support@statsoft.com or call 918-749-1119. - If you live elsewhere, contact the office that services your particular area. To locate that office, select About STATISTICA from the Help menu, and then select the International Offices tab in the About STATISTICA dialog. You can also get this contact information from our website www.statsoft.com. Sincerely, Krista Beasley Manager of Technical Support

Ternary Graph, Analyzing Excel Data

awaner — 2009-11-20T22:19:15Z

This week 'http://www.statsoft.com/support/'>StatSoft technical support saw several questions about Ternary Graph and Excel. This lead to us writing two new blogs. 'http://www.statsoft.com/support/blog/entryid/97/why-use-ternary-graph/'>Why Use Ternary Graph? 'http://www.statsoft.com/support/blog/entryid/96/how-to-restructure-an-excel-spreadsheet-for-statistica-analyses/'>How to Restructure an Excel Spreadsheet for STATISTICA Analyses

Breast Cancer and Statistics

awaner — 2009-11-17T20:48:58Z

Because the news is full of stories about the 'http://www.ahrq.gov/clinic/uspstfab.htm'>U.S. Preventive Services Task Force's new 'http://www.ahrq.gov/clinic/uspstf/uspsbrca.htm'>breast cancer screening recommendations, I want to revisit some basic statistics in a new blog..... 'http://www.statsoft.com/support/blog/entryid/95/breast-cancer-and-statistics/'>http://www.statsoft.com/support/blog/entryid/95/breast-cancer-and-statistics/

Import R funktion and plot ternary 3D diagramm with surface

Mineraloge — 2009-11-12T10:29:17Z

Hello, I'm new to Statistica and I'm searching for some help. I'm using the german version 8.0.725.0 I want to implement a R funktion (f<- npudens from the R library(np)) into Statistica to calculate an estimate density for my data points in a ternary system (CaO(x)-SiO2(y)-Al2O3(z)). This calculated values should be (v) for the ternary 3D plot. How can I do this? In this 3D ternary plot I want to draw a surface of this calculated values, like a 3D landscape to show the highest density through a mountain. At the moment I can only draw the calculated values as points in the 3D ternary diagram. I hope someone can help me. Mineraloge

How to Access Data via STATISTICA Macro

awaner — 2009-11-12T22:20:40Z

New blog... 'http://www.statsoft.com/support/blog/entryid/94/how-to-access-data-via-statistica-macro/'>How to Access Data via STATISTICA Macro

Perfection is... the Enemy of Good Enough

awaner — 2009-11-11T22:25:23Z

A friend recommended that I read Avinash Kaushik's 2009 book called 'http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0470529393?ie=UTF8 tag=wwwstatsoftco-20 linkCode=as2 camp=1789 creative=390957 creativeASIN=0470529393' style='border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; color: rgb(0, 82, 219); text-align: left; text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; font-family: Verdana, 'Segoe UI', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; '>Web Analytics 2.0: The Art of Online Accountability and Science of Customer Centricity. I have enjoyed the book and wrote a blog about some of my thoughts; 'http://www.statsoft.com/support/blog/entryid/93/perfection-is-the-enemy-of-good-enough/'>Perfection is... the Enemy of Good Enough Anyone else read this book?

Mixed model

shiri — 2009-11-06T21:21:41Z

Hi, I'm trying to analyze my data using a mixed model. I entered 2 random variables (subject item) 2 fixed variables with their interaction (the 2 things I'm interested in). For some reason, when I do the analysis, it only gives the resuls of the 2 random (uninteresting variables). When I look at the coefficient table, I see that it 'zeroed' my fixed variables and their interaction because they failed the tolerance check. These factors cannot be correlated with each other since one was the condition, and the other variable is the subjects' WM (and since subjects were assigned to condition randomly, the variation is similar across the two manipulated conditions). When I look at the correlation table, I just see multiple small correlations (~0.1) with subjects, which makes sense since each subject has only 1 WM score and 1 condition. Why do the variables fail the tolerance test and how do I get around this? Thanks! Shiri

How often do you read blogs that include statistical analysis?

awaner — 2009-09-09T16:06:21Z

How To Generate Random Normal Distribution Numbers

awaner — 2009-11-03T23:22:43Z

I was recently asked how to generate random normal distribution numbers via twitter. Here is my reply 'http://www.statsoft.com/support/blog/entryid/91/how-to-generate-random-normal-distribution-numbers/'>http://www.statsoft.com/support/blog/entryid/91/how-to-generate-random-normal-distribution-numbers/

Find X,Y Values for Regression Line

awaner — 2009-11-02T17:50:34Z

'http://twitter.com/statsoft'>@statsoft was asked a question on twitter. ----------------------------------------- bpholt: Can one trace along a regression line, conf interval, or pred interval on a scatterplot to get x,y values (e.g. with the mouse)? ----------------------------------------- The answer is yes. To see how it is done read; 'http://www.statsoft.com/support/blog/entryid/90/how-to-get-x-y-values-for-regression-line/'>How To Get X,Y Values for Regression Line

min tolerance < given value ?!?!??

Caro — 2009-10-28T17:20:35Z

Hello! I' just learning how to work with statstica and have the first problem... I hope you can help me! I want to do an multiple regression. But statstica says something like 'min. tolerance

Did You Attend Predictive Analytics World (PAW)?

awaner — 2009-10-29T16:48:12Z

Did You Attend Predictive Analytics World (PAW)? StatSoft employees attended. Here are 'http://statsoft.com/support/blog/entryid/87/data-mining-predictive-modeling/'>our thoughts/pictures about this Data Mining / Predictive Modeling conference.

Automation Error with Statistica in VBA macro in Access 2003

kenneth52 — 2009-10-28T10:39:18Z

We are a German company developing solutions with Statistica for client firms.

In a certain project, we need to integrate a Statistica graph into the application which uses a VBA macro in Microsoft Access 2003.

In Access, Stastica 8.0 is declared and accessed as an application objekt and used for the generation of Statistica graph objects.

With the Desktop version of Statistica (Basis, Professional), the VBA macro in Access works without any problems, and all of the features function as desired.

Unfortunately the same macro does not work with the Enterprise version that our client uses.

With the following declaration and line of code, an automation error occurs.

Dim appStat As New STATISTICA.Application appStat.VISIBLE = False

Error:

Microsoft Visual Basic

Laufzeitfehler (English: run-time error): ‚-2147220992 (80040200)’

Dieser Vorgang erfordert eine Verbindung zur STATISTICA-Enterprise-Database, die momentan aber nicht verfuegbar ist. Möglicherweise aufgrund einer fehlerhaften Datenbankverbindung-Information.

(English: This process requires a connection to the Statistica Enterprise database, that is not accessible at present. This is perhaps because of a defective database connection.)

The VBA code, that works with the Desktop version of Statistica, throws the error with the Enterprise version.

Perhaps Statistica Enterprise expects an authentication for the Enterprise server, although we do not need to use this in our application.

I would like to ask:

Is automation with the Statistica application objekt, that we need for our client, possible at all with the Enterprise version?

If yes, what do we need to do to get it to function error-free?

What Is Data Mining

awaner — 2009-10-07T02:52:11Z

'http://statsoft.com/support/blog/entryid/83/what-is-data-mining/'>http://statsoft.com/support/blog/entryid/83/what-is-data-mining/ Does my analogy/definition work?

Why Government Data Mines

STATISTICA — 2009-09-23T21:11:04Z

'http://statsoft.com/support/blog/entryid/77/why-government-data-mines/'>http://statsoft.com/support/blog/entryid/77/why-government-data-mines/

Help with neuralnetwork

elisacarli21 — 2009-10-12T15:15:57Z

Dear All I've implemented a neural network with Statistica 8.0 to study a time series. I've saved it in xml format. Could you tell me the steps to follow fo using this network to predict new values? best regards and thanks in advance

Using STATISTICA with Excel

awaner — 2009-10-02T17:30:58Z

It is very easy to use 'http://www.statsoft.com/support/blog/entryid/82/how-to-import-an-excel-file-to-statistica/'>Excel data and analysis it with STATISTICA. My co-worker, Susan, just posted a 'http://www.statsoft.com/support/blog/entryid/82/how-to-import-an-excel-file-to-statistica/'>blog with an overview of the process. You have two basic options. You can import the data into a STATISTICA spreadsheet. Or you can open it as an Excel spreadsheet within STATISTICA. Which option do you use? I use both options.. it depends on my data.

Data Mining and Game Theory

awaner — 2009-09-30T23:17:20Z

Is anyone working with game theory and data mining? Read any interesting papers or blogs on it? 'http://statsoft.com/support/blog/entryid/81/predictive-modeling-dog-catches-frisbee/'>http://statsoft.com/support/blog/entryid/81/predictive-modeling-dog-catches-frisbee/

Data Mining, The Nature of Reality

awaner — 2009-09-29T17:20:47Z

I am in the middle of reading 'http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0123747651?ie=UTF8 tag=wwwstatsoftco-20 linkCode=as2 camp=1789 creative=9325 creativeASIN=0123747651' target='_blank'>The Handbook of Statistical Analysis and Data Mining Applications by Robert Nisbet, John Elder and Gary Miner. As I go through the book, I will be sharing sections that I enjoyed. 'http://statsoft.com/support/blog/entryid/79/data-mining-the-nature-of-reality/'>http://statsoft.com/support/blog/entryid/79/data-mining-the-nature-of-reality/