Seeking a good book on StatSoft Statistica
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Statistica is a menu driven stat package. I mean it has an interactive graphical user interface. Which part you are facing the problem? in the statistics part or in the data handling part?
I hope you are familiar with this site.
http://www.statsoft.com/textbook/stathome.html . This is one of the useful site from statsoft.
I hope you are familiar with this site.
http://www.statsoft.com/textbook/stathome.html . This is one of the useful site from statsoft.
I am new to Statistica, which I am exploring because of its claimed abilities to integrate with R and with .Net.
The first thing for me to learn about Statistica is how to use it to manipulate data.
For a start I've got some data in a table within an MS Access 2003 database that I've linked into Statistica through an ODBC connection. That's been my little task tonight, following along with the Statistica built-in documentation.
I am aware of the StatSoft Electronic Textbook, but I find those hyperlink things to be "tricksy," hard to work through end-to-end, really just more for reference.
The Electronic Textbook seems to be more about the subject of statistics itself, rather than a help with Statistica. For a general statistics reference I'm using the Springer book -- Applied Statisticis Using SPSS, Statistica, Matlab and R, which I feel is a great read.
The first thing for me to learn about Statistica is how to use it to manipulate data.
For a start I've got some data in a table within an MS Access 2003 database that I've linked into Statistica through an ODBC connection. That's been my little task tonight, following along with the Statistica built-in documentation.
I am aware of the StatSoft Electronic Textbook, but I find those hyperlink things to be "tricksy," hard to work through end-to-end, really just more for reference.
The Electronic Textbook seems to be more about the subject of statistics itself, rather than a help with Statistica. For a general statistics reference I'm using the Springer book -- Applied Statisticis Using SPSS, Statistica, Matlab and R, which I feel is a great read.
I think in your case it's better to address to Statsoft support service. They answer any questions like how some statistics are calculated, how-to-do simple questions for free.A good STATISTICA book is the STATISTICA Quick Reference. You can find the PDF on the Help menu of Version 8 and later. Or you can order the physical book from StatSoft (info@statsoft.com).
In response to your other questions:
Database Connection - On the Help menu, select STATISTICA Help. Go to the Search tab. Select the Search Titles Only checkbox and type in "database connection" (make sure you use the double-quotes to limit your search results). The topic "How do I set up a database connection using the OLE DB provider for ODBC" has step-by-step instructions.
R Integration - On the Help menu, select R Integration White Paper. This PDF describes integration options to leverage R functionality in STATISTICA.
In response to your other questions:
Database Connection - On the Help menu, select STATISTICA Help. Go to the Search tab. Select the Search Titles Only checkbox and type in "database connection" (make sure you use the double-quotes to limit your search results). The topic "How do I set up a database connection using the OLE DB provider for ODBC" has step-by-step instructions.
R Integration - On the Help menu, select R Integration White Paper. This PDF describes integration options to leverage R functionality in STATISTICA.