Bmdp Statistical Software Manual: To Accompany the 1988 Software Release
W. J. Dixon · Medical Entomology and Zoology · 1988
The BMDP package is an extensive collection of computer programs that aids students, instructors and research professionals the world over in analyzing data. Running on most mainframes, minicomputers and PCs, the BMDP software has capabilities ranging from plots and simple data description to more sophisticated techniques such as repeated measures analysis. Practitioners in diverse fields, from psychology, sociology, and economics to biology, medicine and public health, should find the programs of use. The BDMP Statistical Software Manual is a reference guide for users. The Version 7.0 edition presents the latest program features and an expanded step-by-step introduction on how to use BMDP. Program chapters employ examples - each demonstrating a typical analysis - from realistic biomedical, environmental, social science and industrial research. Sample outputs are annotated to help users interpret their results. Volume 3 discusses the BMDP Data Manager, a powerful, interactive data manipulation system. The Data Manager program reads and writes BMDP files and raw data files, and it reads fields with multiple record types and hierarchical structures. It supports data manipulation such as merging files side by side, end to end, or by interleaving records. It also offers packing and unpacking procedures for transposing values between single and multiple records, as well as sorting, transforming and calculating summary statistics.