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ODStatistics tutorial

1. Introduction

ODStatistics is a collection of Open Office Calc worksheets (version 3.0 or higher) that can be used to perform most of the most common tasks in Data Analysis.

Installation

Simpy copy all the files that come compressed to a folder of your computer, you can call this folder as you wish.

To start the software

Double-click over the "odstats.ods" file (maybe you see it without the extension, that is just "odstats"), or used the procedure of your computer to open programs at your operating system.
The set is composed by 8 worksheets of basic analysis, each one designed to manage a particular combination of two types of basic variables - Numerical (Num) or Categorial (Cat), and also time series and index numbers. There are some other worksheets linked to the basic ones. There are also some other worksheets to perform specific tasks. The initial menu of ODStatistics looks as follows:


The different analysis have to be performed using this initial menu. Do not open the other spreadsheets in the folder directly, but using this menu. If you open these spreadsheets directly, you can break their functionality and maybe you will need to reinstall ODStatistics.
The summaries, diagrams and analysis for each type of data are updated automatically, and therefore questions like "what type of graph do I need for a categorical variable?" are not needed. Users can change anything that is seen as blue according to their needs.

How to obtain help within the software?

Within each worksheet it is possible to obtain help by double-clicking over any red cell.

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