<p>Using Smith’s Statistical Package</p><p>Loading data</p><p>1. Go to File > Import Tab-delimited (not comma-delimited) 2. Select the file you want to load</p><p>You can try to copy and paste data to Smith’s Statistical Package, but sometimes it might not work.</p><p>Calculating mean, median, etc.</p><p>Select Describing Data from the menu. Then select mean, variance to compute mean, variance, and standard deviation. Select median, quartiles for the 5-number summary. A window will pop up to ask you which variables to calculate. Select the appropriate variable.</p><p>Graphing</p><p>Select Describing Data from the menu. Then select histogram, box-plot, etc. A window will pop up to ask you which variable to calculate, and another window will ask you for some options. Select the appropriate variable and/or options.</p><p>Caution: the y-axis of the histograms give a different kind of frequency (called density) than we use in class. Just ignore this. Use the frequency from the table instead.</p><p>Caution: The box plots do not show outliers.</p>
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