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I am compelled by unknown forces to do this every year,
I guess because people thank me for it.

Since 1980, I have been distributing a small statistics
package called UNIX|STAT, so called because it was developed on
UNIX and uses pipelines a lot; it is a very UNIX style package.
Thanks to a lot of grundgy work by Fred Horan at Cornell,
the Lattice C compiler, and continuing education in portabilty,
most of the programs have been ported to MSDOS on the IBM PC.
I am not yet ready to distribute the programs on floppies for
MSDOS, but more than one site has been able to take the sources
I distribute and compile them for MSDOS with other C compilers.
Over the next few months, I will be doing V&V work on the MSDOS
versions and find some floppy-copy house to make copies.

So, what is UNIX|STAT?  Well, it's not comprehensive, but there
are a lot of good programs in it.  They are described below.
More programs are likely in the next year.  Some people have sent
me code (that I have not yet had time to incorporate) for non-
parametrics, and I am working on a multi-factor crosstabs/chi-square.

People seem to like UNIX|STAT because it integrates with UNIX
naturally, reading the standard input and writing the standard output.
It even has documentation: tutorials, manual entries, and I have
even made a video tape introduction (although the tape has not been
distributed with the package).  It is also cheap: $20 gets you a mag tape,
or you can send me a 600 foot mag tape and prepaid return mailer
and get it free.  This, obviously, is public domain software.

If you send me your postal address, I can send you more documentation.
Now for details.

Note: if you are using UNIX|STAT 5.0, there is nothing new here.

                            UNIX|STAT 5.0
                    COMPACT DATA ANALYSIS PROGRAMS


     UNIX|STAT is a set of UNIX System data manipulation and analysis
programs developed at the University of California, San Diego by Gary
Perlman (now teaching at the Wang Institute of Graduate Studies).  The
programs are designed with the UNIX System philosophy that individual
programs should be designed as tools that do one task well and produce
output suitable for input via pipes to other programs.  Interactive
use is supported in the UNIX System shell which also provides a
programming language for complex analyses.  Typical usage involves a
pipeline of transformations of data followed by input to an analysis
program, summarized schematically by:

          INPUT DATA | TRANSFORM | ANALYSIS | OUTPUT RESULTS

Functionality often built into statistical packages (e.g., graphics,
sorting and other data manipulation) is not re-invented in UNIX|STAT
which delegates such responsibility to standard UNIX System tools.

FEATURES

     easy to use (negligible training period)
     simple input formats (free format field oriented)
     used in pipelines with other UNIX System utilities (sort, vi)
     flexible data manipulation
     data validation provided (range and type checking)
     full documentation support (manual entries, tutorials)
     extensible (many modular C functions)
     faster than most packages (usually less than a second per analysis)
     small enough for micros (10-25K byte programs)
     runs on any UNIX System (V6, V7, 2.8BSD, 4BSD, III.0, System V, others)
     public domain software (can't be distributed for gain)
     in use at more than 300 UNIX System sites for five years

CHANGES FOR RELEASE 5.0 (March 5, 1985)

     reworked to increase portability, reliability, and usability
     all commands now use a standard option parser (getopt)
     all calculations are now done in double precision
     diagnostic error messages have been improved
     regress now does a partial correlation analysis
     colex and trans were added as alternatives for dm
     F ratio probabilities are now better approximated
     some inefficient input was optimized
     some non-portable features of C were replaced so that
     the programs now run under MSDOS on the IBM PC
     the random number seeding has been improved
     all programs now use a zero exit status on success
     version control was added--we are now at release 5.0

UNIX|STAT is Public Domain

     The programs have been released to the public and are distributed
to anyone who wants them.  Persons wanting to get a copy of the
package should contact me directly.  You can get the package for free
if you send me a tape and a self-addressed prepaid return mailer.  Or
you can send me personally $20 US to cover the costs of a tape and mailing.

The distribution includes:

     The C source files for all the programs.
     The documentation source files.
     A collection of test examples.

Contact:

     Gary Perlman
     Wang Institute of Graduate Studies
     Tyng Road
     Tyngsboro, MA 01879 USA
     (617) 649-9731
     uucp:     decvax!wanginst!perlman
               sdcsvax!sdcsla!perlman
     csnet:    perlman@wanginst
     arpa:     sdcsla!perlman@nprdc

NOTES:

     UNIX|STAT is unsupported, though known bugs have been removed.
     UNIX|STAT may not be distributed for profit.
     UNIX|STAT is NOT a product of any company or organization.
     UNIX|STAT is distributed on a `` use-at-your-own-risk basis.''


UNIX|STAT(1)           UNIX User's Manual            UNIX|STAT(1)

NAME
     UNIX | STAT - compact data analysis programs

DESCRIPTION
     UNIX | STAT is a set of data manipulation and analysis pro-
     grams developed at the University of California, San Diego.
     The programs are designed with the UNIX System philosophy
     that individual programs should be designed as tools that do
     one task well and produce output suitable for input via
     pipes to other programs.  Interactive use is supported in
     the UNIX System shell which also provides a programming
     language for complex analyses.  Functionality often built
     into statistical packages (e.g., graphics, sorting and other
     data manipulation) is not re-invented in UNIX | STAT which
     delegates such responsibility to standard UNIX System tools.

     DATA TRANSFORMATION PROGRAMS
          abut           join data files
          colex          column extraction
          dm             column oriented data manipulator
          io             control and monitor input and output
          maketrix       create matrix type file from free-form file
          perm           randomly permute lines in a file
          repeat         repeat a pattern or file
          reverse        reverse lines and characters
          series         print a series of numbers
          transpose      transpose matrix type file

     ANALYSIS PROGRAMS
          anova          multi-factor anova with repeated measures
          calc           interactive algebraic modeling calculator
          critf/pof      F-ratio/probability conversion functions
          dataplot       flexible data plotting
          desc           descriptions histograms, frequency tables
          dprime         signal detection d' and beta calculations
          oneway         one-way anova and t-test
          pair           paired data statistics, regression, plots
          regress        multivariate linear regression
          ts             time series analysis and plots
          validata       verify data file consistency
          vincent        time-series comparison

AUTHOR
     Gary Perlman (with the help of several others)

SEE ALSO
     sh(1), sort(1), uniq(1), sed(1), awk(1), grep(1), rm(1),
     cp(1), pr(1), ls(1), mv(1)
-- 
Gary Perlman  Wang Institute  Tyngsboro, MA 01879  (617) 649-9731
UUCP: decvax!wanginst!perlman             CSNET: perlman@wanginst