ProStat version 5 new features (Show me in printer friendly format: statnew.pdf)

• The new program is fully compatible with the Microsoft Windows Vista (32-bit and 64-bit) operating system and earlier versions of Microsoft Windows.

• Expanded data sheet capable of handling data up to 1,048,576 rows and 1024 columns.

• New fully functional report windows offer more flexible ways to edit mathematical and statistical manipulation results and exchange data with other windows and Windows applications.

• The new project environment links your data sheets, plot windows, and report windows together to provide a more efficient way to manage your research projects.

• The new program comes with a new powerful macro feature that allows you to record your data sheet operation in a user-defined macro file and use this macro for repeated procedures.

• New real-time plotting allows you to connect your edited plots with a dynamic data source and provides live updates of your plots to reflect the changes in the data.

• The new menu with graphics icon presentation provides more intuitive ways to navigate the new programs.

• New dialog box help system. Need help? hit the <F1> key.

• New data import capabilities, including support for MS Access format and Wave data format.

• New data management features include new column normalization methods, column combination, column separation, column statistics, handling missing cells, filling missing cells with linear or spline interpolated data, inserting data block, improved editing undo, and sorting multiple levels of unbalanced data.

• New and enhanced data fitting methods include new Poisson regression, improved simplex and Powell methods for user-defined fitting, expanded user-defined model, and over 100 pre-defined fitting models with smart model initialization.

• New mathematical and statistical features include Weibull analysis for failure rate, Kaplan-Meier survival and hazard estimates, Dunnett test for the data mean comparison with control group, Kruskal-Wallis nonparametric multiple comparisons, and interactive function evaluation for arbitrarily user-specified functions.

• Enhanced dose-response analysis: calculation of LD/LC and its confidence intervals at any desired probability level (such as LD25, LD50, LD70,...).

• Over 100 new predefined fitting models. These new models include popular peak fit models, logistic and sigmoidal models, dose-response models, ligand binding models, Lorentian models, rational models, and many others.

• The expanded status line hint messages will report virtually all information regarding your mouse location such as screen position, axes coordinates, data values, data source, and many others.

• New document format control allows you to set the page mode, margin sizes, and many other options such as data title, time stamp, page count, etc.

• New plot wizard will create your desired plot in a more convenient and intuitive way.

• The improved OLE server functions allow you to insert your PSI graphics into word processors (such as Word) and PowerPoint reliably and then edit your PSI graphics inside these applications.

• Export graphs in PDF, PostScript and other commonly used graphics formats such as GIF, JPEG, TIFF, etc.

• Many new plot types: horizontal box plot, horizontal hi-lo charts, horizontal auto error bar charts, candlestick charts, survival curve, floating column with variable widths and colors, 3D-scatter plot with user-specified symbol labels, tableau plots for scattering curves and bar charts.

• More user interactive controls on plots and data curves include calculating the area under a selected curve within user specified data ranges, adding multiple fitted curves to a scatter plot, and inserting user defined symbols into an existing plot.

• Enhanced axis presentation features include new axis modes in the decibel (dB) and BER (Bit Error Ratio) scale and as well as prefix and suffix labels for axis tick marks.

• Enhanced graph editing includes improved multiple-level undo capability, fine-tuning a text object with super- and sub-script, new plotting tools, new line types, and using arrow keys to move a plotting object.

• For surface and 3D bar charts, the new program offers two different methods to create 3D mesh data for irregular data input.

• For the 3D surface and contour plot, the new program allows you the option of drawing the contour on the surface or on the projection plane.

• New cluster function plot allows you to plot a cluster of functions and the function plot model for plotting complicated multiple-lines functions.