Generate State Statisctics
Generate state statistics
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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