Graphical display
R. W. Payne, Peter W. Lane, P. G. N. Digby, S A Harding, Peter Leech, G W Morgan, AD Todd, R Thompson, Granville Tunnicliffe Wilson, Sue J. Welham, Ronald P. White · 1993
Abstract Genstat can produce graphical output in two distinctively different styles. These are line printer graphics and high-resolution graphics. As the name suggests, line-printer graphics are designed for printing on ordinary printers, and are also suitable for display on terminals and 4PC screens. The standard character set, made up of letters, digits, and punctuation characters, is used to produce a graphical representation of the data. This will be of low resolution, typically 24 rows by 80 columns for screen display, 132 by 48 or 80 by 60 for a printer; but this is quite adequate for many uses within Statistics, such as producing a scatterplot or histogram of raw data or checking the distribution of residuals. The advantage of this form of output is that no special equipment, such as a graphics terminal or plotter, is required; also the graphics form an integral part of the Genstat output, and can thus be interspersed with other results during the analysis of your data. Histograms, graphs, and contour plots can be produced in this basic style.