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). 

 

Next page: Generate categorical state statisctics - Three descriptor cross-match

Jul 5, 2024

Subsections of Generate State Statisctics

Generate Three Descriptor Statisctics

Generate state statistics - Three descriptor cross-match

In the examples shown so far only a two descriptor cross-match between Descriptor 1 and Descriptor 3 has been shown. When you set the check mark before Descriptor 2, its categorical states will be included in the statsitical evaluation. The second descriptor will then be inserted in the second table column at the Output area. If you do not perform further settings, each combination of the selected states from Descriptor 1 and Descriptor 2 will be listet in the output table as shown below.

You may further restrict the output by clicking on button right besides Descriptor 2. For each categorical state of Descriptor 1 the number of assigned categorical states of Descriptor 2 is shown (see image below left). When you click on a button in column “Assigned states” you may select the categorical states of Descriptor 2 that shall belisted for the corresponding “First state” (see image below middle). If no “Assigned state” is selected, only the “First state” will be evaluated. 

     

After setting the state cross-reference (see image above right) click “OK”. In the state statistics form an active state selection is indicated by the icon (see image below).