Generate state statistics ...
from the menu. A window with will open as shown below.
This tool allows you to generate a table that shows the
used categorical state of two or three descriptors for a sets of descriptions. To
use this tool, choose Data ->
Generate state statistics ...
from the menu. A window with will open as shown below.
First select the Project. With the option
Include and Exclude you may select descriptions
that shall be included rsp. excluded from the evaluation. To use the option, select
the check box. With buttons
you can now open an query window to select the description
items. If none of these options is selected, all descriptions of the selected
Project will be the base of the statistics evaluation.
In section Categorical states select
the Descriptors. Descriptor 1 and Descriptor
2 are inserted in the first columns of the Output
table, the states of Descriptor 3 are inserted as separate columns.
You may restrict the categorical states that shall be included for a descriptor
by clicking the
Select states button besides it. If you only want to evaluate the cross-match
of two descriptors, you may de-select the check box before Descriptor 2.
In section Legens you may control the appearance of descriptor and state names. By selecting the option Use names you will insert the categorical state names and the descriptor name into the outptu table. By checking the option Use wording, the wording values will be used if available. With the numeric control letters you can control the length of the labels. If you select option Numbers, the sequence numbers of descriptors and categorical states will be inserted.
Click on button
Fill table in section Output to build the cross-reference
table (see image below). During calculation the icon changes to
and you have the option to abort the process by clicking this button.
By clicking
Save table to file you may store the data as tabulator-separated text file.
After saving you may open the text file with an external editor by clicking
View saved file (see image below).
Click on button
Show data as diagram to view the generated cross-reference data as diagram
(see image below).
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