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Getting Started 5
Getting Started
Let’s begin with some examples. First, use the script LOADSTAT command from the
Command window to bring the compiled versions of FRAMELIB and STATLIB into
memory. This is not necessary, but makes your programs start much faster.
Loading will take some time. When that’s done, call up STATS from your disk and run
it. It prints some statistics about the sizes of files in a directory:
Figure 43.01: Output of the STATS program.
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x NOTE: Numbers shown in this manual may not exactly match the
results given on your computer since accuracy of calculations
depends on your computer’s floating point arithmetic accuracy.
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STATS has three important parts. The first is the library statement which names
STAT1LIB. This lets you use the Statistics Graphics Toolkit even if you haven’t loaded
it before you begin your session.
The second is the mat read statement and its associated data. This reads the dataset
into an array.
The last is the call PrintStat statement, which prints statistics about the data in
window #0.
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