This release includes STATISTICA Data Miner Recipes with its wizard-like user interface for STATISTICA Data Miner, STATISTICA Extract, Transform, and Load (ETL), along with various updates. Enhancements can be found throughout the program including:
System Level Functionality
Results spreadsheet generated from an analysis are linked to additional help via on-line help and the Electronic Statistics Textbook
Enhancements to 3D pie charts
Graph styles may not be applied to multiple charts at once
Box plot tool tips will be displayed to show grouping information.
Workbook multi-item save allows multiple items or an folder in a workbook can be selected and "Save As.." a group.
Copy/Paste as version 7 objects
Enhanced support for Microsoft Vista including:
PDF support
Vista Snipping (Screen Catcher) Tool
A new case state "Off" which combines the functionality of Excluded and Hidden
The Save As dialog will accept a typed extension to determine document type (.doc, txt, sta, etc..). To save a STATISTICA spreadsheet as an Excel document simply type adstudy.xls and click on Save. Your document will be saved as an Excel document
Support for Workbook compression with memory being reclaimed after a workbook is compressed or items are deleted
Default settings for STATISTICA can be set by the network administer and distribute through the enterprise
Microsoft Office Support/Integration
Further enhancements to Microsoft Office integration
Option to set the formatting (case names, variable names, cell formatting) per sheet when importing multiple sheets from an Excel Workbook
The Save As dialog will accept a typed extension to determine document type (.doc, txt, sta, etc..). To save a STATISTICA spreadsheet as an Excel document simply type adstudy.xls and click on Save. Your document will be saved as an Excel document.
Support for read/write all version of Microsoft Excel up to Office 2007.
R Integration
R is a statistical programming language that caters to highly specialized audiences with particular data analysis needs. This high level language provides access to well over 1000 different data analysis and data mining packages, and thousands of procedures.
R procedures can be accessed via STATISTICA in several ways:
The STATISTICA Data Miner Recipe (SDMR) approach provides an intuitive graphical interface to enable those with limited data mining experience to execute a "recipe-like" step-by-step analytic process. With these intuitive dialogs, you can perform various data mining tasks such as regression, and classification. Other recipes can be built quickly as custom solutions. Completed recipes can be saved and deployed as project files to score new data.
The STATISTICA Data Miner workspace may be resized independently of the size of the window. Additionally, the 4 node placement rectangles within the workspace may be sized independently. The workspace may be scrolled to view any parts not currently visible.
STATISTICA Enterprise
XBar-R or XBar-S charts can be created from aggregated data.
A new chart type of "Six Graph" graph can be selected for SPC Analysis Configurations that have variable charts defined.
Options for starting "this week" either on Sunday or Monday
Administrators may restrict the set of filtering operations to those that are logical for the data being filtered.
A Deployment option allows you to directly upload PMML into Enterprise SVB Analysis Configurations so that the PMML can be executed against a Data Configuration
STATISTICA Enterprise Reporter can now generate reports directly as Word documents (*.doc). This requires that Microsoft Word be installed on the machine where the Report is run.
The Ad hoc Analysis Configuration is a special type of Analysis Configuration that just returns the data from the associated Data Configuration without running any analysis or SVB. Running an Ad hoc Analysis Configuration is equivalent to exploring the associated Data Configuration. This is useful for users that want to use STATISTICA Enterprise to import their data, and then perform ad hoc analyses.
To obtain the upgrade to STATISTICA 8 or STATISTICA Enterprise 8 please contact your local StatSoft office.
To update your STATISTICA 8 installation to MR-3, download and install the MR-3 update.
STATISTICA Single User and STATISTICA Workstation Installation Instructions
Single users:
Download the service pack.
Initiate the STATISTICA service pack installer by double-clicking on the Setup.exe icon and then clicking “Yes” to start the installer.
Once the Welcome to the STATISTICA Update Setup Wizard dialog appears, click the “Next” button to continue.
Once the Install Type dialog appears, select the “Single-user or Workstation with local files” option and then click the “Next” button.
A warning message will appear advising you to close other programs before applying the service pack. Click “Next”.
A By-group Node Browser dialog will appear. You must select the desired option, which specifies whether the installer should merge or replace the By-group files. Click “Next”.
A Select Destination Location dialog will appear. Use the Browser to point the installer to the location of the STATISTICA program files (e.g., C:\Program Files\StatSoft\STATISTICA 8).
Click “Next”.
From the Ready To Install dialog, after confirming the path to the program files, click “Install”.
Server:
Download the service pack.
Initiate the STATISTICA service pack installer by double-clicking on the Setup.exe icon and then clicking “Yes” to start the installer.
Once the Welcome to the STATISTICA Update Setup Wizard dialog appears, click the “Next” button to continue.
Once the Install Type dialog appears, select the “Server” option and then click the “Next” button.
A warning message will appear advising you to close all STATISTICA network users before applying the service pack. Click “Next”.
A By-group Node Browser dialog will appear. You must select the desired option, which specifies whether the installer should merge or replace the By-group files. Click “Next”.
A Select Destination Location dialog will appear. Use the Browser to point the installer to the location of the STATISTICA program files (e.g., C:\Program Files\StatSoft\STATISTICA 8).
Click “Next”.
From the Ready To Install dialog, after confirming the path to the program files, click “Install”.
Workstation Updates:
NOTE: All workstations must be updated after the appropriate service pack has been applied to the server. There are two different types of workstation installations. The first type is a Regular workstation installation, in which all STATISTICA executable files reside on the server. The second type is a local-file workstation installation, in which the STATISTICA executable files reside locally on the workstation.
Regular Workstation Installation (Executables Reside on the Server):
Download the Workstation service pack for "Workstation that references executables on the server".
Initiate the STATISTICA service pack installer by double-clicking on the WrkUpdate.exe icon.
Once the Welcome to the STATISTICA Update Setup Wizard dialog appears, click the “Next” button to continue.
A Select Destination Location dialog will appear. Use the Browser to point the installer to the location of the STATISTICA program files (e.g., the \\ServerName\STATISTICA 8). Click “Next”.
From the Ready To Install dialog, after confirming the path to the program files, click “Install”.
Local-File Workstation Installation (Executables Reside Locally on the Workstation)
The service pack for "Single User, Server, or Workstation with executables installed locally" must be applied to each workstation.
The service pack must be applied to each workstation using the instructions listed above under "Single users".
Downloadable Update for STATISTICA Data Miner Version 8
STATISTICA Data Miner customers who downloaded a maintenance update between September 4, 2008 and October 9, 2008
or who have received STATISTICA Data Miner between these dates are encouraged to download this update for
STATISTICA Data Miner.
This update will fix an error in one of the supplementary statistics displayed with Random Forests, Boosted Trees,
and C&RT. The defect is restricted to variable importance spreadsheets in those modules. While the graph of the
importance of variables is correct, the corresponding importance spreadsheet is sorted in descending order according
to the variable importance measure however, the variable names corresponding to the importance values were not placed
in the appropriate order. The result is an incorrect spreadsheet of variable importance measures. The corresponding
graph of variable importance which was also sorted in descending order is correct.
STATISTICA Visual Basic programs
[Last Update: January 9, 2002]
The industry standard
STATISTICA
Visual Basic language (integrated into STATISTICA) offers
incomparably more than just a supplementary application programming
language that can be used to write custom extensions. STATISTICA
Visual Basic adds an arsenal of more than 10,000 new functions to the
standard comprehensive syntax of Microsoft Visual Basic, thus
comprising one of the largest and richest development environments
available. A library of STATISTICA Visual Basic programs
(written by StatSoft employees and by STATISTICA users) is
available.
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