VisualStat® Updates

Updates and Release Notes

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VisualStat 2010 SP2 (build 8.2.2276)

Enhancements

	Some features does not work on 64 bit systems, e.g. Windows 7 x64. This has been fixed.
	and much more...

VisualStat 2010 SP1 (build 8.1.2087)

Enhancements

	Installation don't work properly on some system, e.g. Windows 7. This has been fixed.
	and much more...

VisualStat 2010 Release to Manufacturing (build 8.0.2046)

Enhancements

	Documentation
	and much more...

VisualStat 2010 Release Candidate (build 8.0.1912)

Enhancements

	Local Help US & FR
	and much more...

VisualStat 2010 Alpha 3 (build 8.0.1863)

Enhancements

	Menu Localization
	Correspondence Analysis
	and much more...

VisualStat 2010 Alpha 2 (build 8.0.1465)

Enhancements

	Charting data (Bar, Column, Hilo, Histogram,...)
	Distribution Functions
	Random Numbers
	Vectors calculations
	Matrices calculation
	Principal Component Analysis
	Hierarchical Cluster Analysis
	and much more...

VisualStat 2010 Alpha 1 (build 8.0.0893)

Enhancements

	New interface
	Complete text rendering
	Excel style grouping
	Sheet corner customization
	Cell note indicator customization
	Frozen rows and columns in child views
	More Import and Export Options
	Export to PDF
	Excel 2007 XML support
	Export and import images to/from an Excel-formatted file (BIFF 8 format only)
	Ability to export alternating rows settings to an Excel-formatted file (export only)
	Import/Export Validation List to XLS
	Formula provider bar
	Allow user to double-click row header to auto resize the row height
	Trailing frozen rows and columns
	Pop-up calculator for currency, number, and percent cells
	Text rotation
	More print preview functionality
	Optimize printing based on page size
	Repeat the print of rows and columns at top and left of page
	One Sample Z-Test
	Two Sample F-Test
	Least Squares Minimization
	One-Way Repeated Measures ANOVA
	Two-Way ANOVA
	Two-Way Repeated Measures ANOVA
	Compute vector and matrix
	and much more...

VisualStat .NET 2005 (build 7.0.6170)

Enhancements

	Support ODBC connection
	Multivariate Analysis
	Simple Correspondence Analysis
	Multiple Correspondence Analysis
	Principal Components Analysis
	Agglomerative Hierarchical Clustering
	Graphic assistant

VisualStat .NET 2005 Beta 2 (build 7.0.5272)

Enhancements

	Generates a new variable from existing variables
	Transpose Column
	Stack Column
	Untack Column
	Transpose Row
	Recode Variable
	Create Categories
	Split DataSheet
	Subset DataSheet
	Merge DataSheets
	Transpose DataSheet
	Sort DataSheet
	Rank DataSheet
	Change Data Type
	Export / Import Data
	Integrated Help

VisualStat .NET 2005 Beta 1 (build 7.0.5172)

Enhancements

Full localization support. All regional and language options are available.

Chart Plot in Frequencies Summary

Can choose output report for each procedure

Split, Subset, Merge & Transpose DataSheet

Multiple Sheets in DataBook

Stack, Transpose & Split Column and Row

Session Explorer

Right Pane Description

Task List Window

Messages Window and Logging

Web Browser Window

Command Window

Zooming DataBook, DataChart and Repport

New Data Types in Column Format, including General, Currency, ...

Box-and-Whisker Plot in procedures, including

	Description & Mean Summary
	ANOVA
	One-Sample, Paired-Sample & Two-Sample t-Test

Char Bar & Chart Line in procedures, including

	Cross Tabulation
	One-Sample, Paired-Sample & Two-Sample t-Test
	ANOVA

Interval Plot for Mean in procedures, including

	Description & Mean Summary
	One-Sample, Paired-Sample & Two-Sample t-Test
	ANOVA

Bar Chart for Mean in Mean Summary

Common Univariate Statistics in

	Description, Mean
	Regression, Bivariate Correlation
	Parametric Test
	Nonparametric Tests

Post Hoc Interval Plot in ANOVA

Two-Way ANOVA

Test for Equal Variances

X'X (Hat) Matrix in Regression

Influential Data and Residuals in Regression

Residual Plots in Regression

Diagnostic Measures in Regression, including

	Residuals
	Studentized Residuals
	Jackknife Residuals
	Cook's Distance
	Leverage values
	DFFITS
	Fitted values
	SE of Fitted values
	CI of Fitted values

Stepwise Regression

Logistic Regression

Partial Correlation

Binomial Test

Fisher’s Exact Test

Paired Proportions

Two Independent Proportions

F-Test

Levene Test

Survival Analysis

Life Table

Kaplan-Meier

Log-Rank & Wilcoxon Test

Weibull Model

Cox Regression

Time Series

Autocorrelation

Box-Jenkins ARIMA

Exponential Smoothing

VisualStat Professional 2003 (build 6.0.3261)

Fixes

F1 key on some dialog box

Enhancements

	Probability Densities Functions (PDF)
	Cumulative Probabilities Functions (CDF)
	Inverse Cumulative Probabilities Functions (InvCDF)

VisualStat Professional 2003 Beta 1

Fixes

RTF code in Output Window

Enhancements

	One-Way ANOVA
	One-Sample t-Test
	Paired-Samples t-Test
	Independent-Samples t-Test
	Wilcoxon Singed Rank Test
	Wilcoxon Paired-Samples Test
	Kolmogorov-Smirnov 1-Sample Test
	Kolmogorov-Smirnov 2-Sample Test
	Spearman Rank Correlation
	Kendall Rank Correlation
	Sign Test for Paired-Samples
	Mann-Whitney Rank Sum Test
	Chi-Square Goodness-of-Fit Test
	Pearson's Chi-Square Test on a two-way contingency table
	McNemar’s Chi-Square Test on a two-way contingency table
	Bowker's Chi-Square Test on a two-way contingency table
	Likelihood-Ratio Chi-Square Test on a two-way contingency table
	Pearson's Chi-Square Test on a crosstabulation of two categorical variables
	McNemar’s Chi-Square Test on a crosstabulation of two categorical variables
	Bowker's Chi-Square Test on a crosstabulation of two categorical variables
	Likelihood-Ratio Chi-Square Test on a crosstabulation of two categorical variables
	ChartSheet Wizard, with new ChartSheet engine
	New ChartSheet Type: Stacking Bar
	New ChartSheet Type: High Low
	New ChartSheet Type: High Low Open Close
	New ChartSheet Type: Candle
	New ChartSheet Type: Polar
	New ChartSheet Type: Radar
	New ChartSheet Type: High Low Open Close
	New ChartSheet Type: Filled Radar
	New ChartSheet Type: Bubble
	Full supports OLE drag and drop between VisualStat DataSheet and others Windows applications.
	New Data Type: Number
	New Data Type: Currency
	New Data Type: Percentage
	New Data Format: Negative Number, negative red, separator, Leading Zero
	New Data Format: Negative Red
	New Data Format: LeadingZero
	New Data Format: Orientation
	Protected DataSheet
	Full supports Microsoft Jet 4.0 DataBase for import external files
	Full support Microsoft ODBC (Open Database Connectivity)
	Provided with SPSS ODBC driver
	Import Jet 4.0 DataDase : Lotus, DBase, Excel, Access, ... etc
	Enhanced Load Text File, with full supports for Cell, Column and Row Delimiter
	Export DataSheet to Unicode Text File, with full supports for Cell, Column and Row Delimiter
	Export DataSheet to XML File
	Enhanced export ChartSheet to JPEG file format, with Compressing, Encoding, GrayScale
	Export ChartSheet to PNG file format
	PrintPreview for Output Window
	Detachable Task Bar
	Performs Mean for Layer 1, Layer 2 and entire Population

Version 5.1.0

Fixes

	The formula bar don't work properly when press = or the Enter key. This has been fixed.
	When an error occurs in the Description module, VisualStat add an unexpected column at the end of the active DataSheet. This has been fixed.
	Deactivate a XYPlot window and activate another one causes a trappable errors number 13. This has been fixed.
	When user select a chart part using the chart toolbar, the corresponding part now become highlighted.

Version 5.0.0

Fixes

	After perform Principal Components Analysis, the insertion point move at the top of the log window rather than move at the beginning of the printed results. This has been fixed.
	The Result Tab of the CrossTabulation dialog box stay hidden. This has been fixed.

Enhancements

	Linear Regression, including all statistics you need: means and standard deviations of each variable in the analysis, plus a Covariance matrix and a Correlation matrix (with one-tailed significance level for each correlation). Model fit statistics include multiple R, R squared and adjusted R squared, standard error of the estimate, F-statistic, and an analysis-of-variance table. Confidence intervals for the coefficients are available.
	Curve Estimation fits various types of mathematical functions to data, including Linear, Compound, Growth, Logarithmic, S-Model, Exponential, Inverse, Power
	Bivariate Correlations provides either one-tailed or two-tailed significance tests for Pearson, Kendall tau-b and Spearman correlation coefficient. Additional statistics are available (mean, standard deviation, covariance).
	Descriptive include additional univariate statistics: Kurtosis and Skewness.
	Office XP-style menus and toolbar, with quick customization and flyout tools. Toolbars and menus are dockable, floating, popup, fixed and detachable.

Version 4.3.0

Fixes

	On some Windows 9X system, when you attempt to restore down child windows, an invalid page fault may occur in Oleaut32.dll. You can now avoid this error by unselecting the IconMenu option.
	On Windows 9x system (including Windows 95, Windows 98 & Windows ME), a General Protection Fault (GPF) occurs in module user.dll after closing down VisualStat. To avoid this error, please hide the address bar before exit VisualStat.
	The Cross Table dialog returns an unexpected result when categorical variables in column or in rows contain error data. This has been fixed.
	The use of Principal Components Analysis or Factors Analysis with large data sets makes VisualStat not responding. This has been fixed.
	The If Condition doses not work properly when you choose the name of an existing variable in the Generator of Variables dialog box. This has been fixed.

Enhancements

If you recode an existing variable by the use of the Generator of Variables dialog box, you can now get all level of a categorical variable. This feature is useful when your categorical variable have too many level.

You can now customize all format number of printed results, i.e. number of digits after decimal point, display leading zero, place negative values within parentheses, 1000 separator using the group delimiter specified in the computer's regional settings. In addition, VisualStat allows you to use settings information coming from the Regional Settings Number tab.

When you execute the Cross Table procedure to to count the number of observations that have different combinations of values of two or more categorical variables, you can now automatically add modalities for missing and error values.

You can now add or remove missing labels and error labels.

CrossTabulation now lets you to list all printed results in the log file.

All modules now run faster.

List of the new functions that have been added to VisualStat 4.3

ISMISSING

Version 4.2.0

Fixes

	Speech Engine can now perform over than 100 words without show an error message.
	When you create a chart using values for individual observations, headers and bars are wrongly displayed. This has been fixed.
	Some installations problems for Windows 9X systems have been fixed.

Enhancements

	AutoComplete can be use for categorical variables. This feature provides all possible modalities from a combo box drop-down list.
	Context-sensitive Help is now available in English
	Online Help File is now available in English

Version 4.1.2

Fixes

Windows XP users can now appreciate VisualStat's support of new XP features.

Version 4.1.1

Fixes

A class was not registered and cause Error 429 (ActiveX component can't create object) on starting VisualStat. This has been fixed.

Version 4.1.0

Fixes

	Principal Components Analysis dialog box now works correctly when the number of columns in the DataSheet is less than 7.
	When the VisualStat Recent List collection is empty, the enhanced Common Dialog doesn’t work correctly after adding new file in that collection. This has been fixed.
	The combo box of the find windows now display the correct formatted text, especially when the searched text contain formatted data like separators char.
	When you insert columns or paste data, it will sometimes cause two or more columns to have a same name. Because every column name must be unique, this has been fixed.
	The StatusBar now display the correct cell position.

Enhancements

Search engine now can find and replace empty or missing data.

Version 4.0.0

Fixes

	OpenDialog now can open vst file when type file is .
	When row header is empty (not initialized), enumerated character is now displayed in log journal and XYPlot.
	Auto create category problem is fixed.

Enhancements

	Add icon on menu and popup menu.
	Flatted controls in toolbars, like MS Office.
	A short message appear on status bar when highlight menu.
	Add detachable tool form for a quick color choice.
	VisualStat can now save chart and plot in a standard JPEG image format.
	Add Principal Components Analysis function.
	Add Agglomerative Hierarchical Clustering function, supporting up to six methods : Ward, Centroïd, Complete, Single, Average and Variance. End user can choose between either Chi-square or Euclidean metric.
	Enhanced Common Dialog allows end user to have an all-in-one dialog box where he can type all needing options for open, save, import and export file operations.
	Implement Full Screen function.
	Can now delete a chart from the chart list.