What's new in StatsDirect 3.3.6
May 24, 2023
- Text box+whisker plots from files with long names now complete.
- Graphical box+whisker plots with long series names now produce reasonable output.
- Block randomisation with fixed block sizes now produces correct randomisations in the last (block size * treatments) values.
- Block randomisation now correctly produces treatment labels A, B, C... rather than 65, 66, 67....
New in StatsDirect 3.3.5 (May 24, 2023)
- Fixed regression in 3.3.0; several tabular functions now complete.
New in StatsDirect 3.3.4 (Oct 23, 2020)
- Fixed regression in 3.3.0; Crosstabs now completes.
New in StatsDirect 3.3.3 (Jul 20, 2020)
- Fixed regression in 3.3.0; Log rank and Wilcoxon test now completes.
- Fixed regression in 3.3.0; progress bars no longer remain visible after an operation completes.
New in StatsDirect 3.3.2 (Jul 18, 2020)
- Fixed regression in 3.3.0; univariate summary now runs.
New in StatsDirect 3.3.1 (Jul 13, 2020)
- Fixed regression in 3.3.0; univariate summary now runs.
New in StatsDirect 3.3.0 (Jul 6, 2020)
- Funnel should now always be visible in bias assessment plot.
- Integer factorials are now parsed correctly in the calculator (previously 8.0! worked, 8! failed).
- Charts should now always respect the user's colour preferences.
- Many changes behind the scenes to separate analysis of input data from its presentation, in order to reduce effort for customisers and for non-Windows Forms porting.
New in StatsDirect 3.2.109 (Mar 6, 2020)
- Fixed regression in 3.2.1 where hollow bars in population pyramids and bar charts would fail to render.
New in StatsDirect 3.2.80 (Sep 16, 2019)
- Fixed error trying to run 2xk chi-square with some data.
- Updated help contents.
New in StatsDirect 3.2.70 (May 30, 2019)
- Fixed regression in 3.2.1 where charts with log scales were poorly rendered.
New in StatsDirect 3.2.60 (May 28, 2019)
- Updated certificate signing of installer and executable files.
- Updated help files.
New in StatsDirect 3.2.50 (May 27, 2019)
- Updated certificate signing of installer and executable files.
- Updated help files.
New in StatsDirect 3.2.40 (May 23, 2019)
- Fixed a second regression in 3.2.1 where some reports would fail to render in RTF.
- Ensured the exe installer downloads .Net Framework 4.6.1 if not already installed.
New in StatsDirect 3.2.30 (May 22, 2019)
- Fixed regression in 3.2.1 where some reports would fail to render in RTF.
New in StatsDirect 3.2.10 (May 20, 2019)
- New charting system in preparation for SVG charts in new reporting systems.
- Fixed bug in linear regression residuals plot.
- Improved shading in forest plots.
- Fixed bug with search and replace of empty cells.
- New optimisations in expression parser.
- Target .Net Framework raised to 6.1.
New in StatsDirect 3.1.22 (Dec 24, 2018)
- General improvements to charting.
New in StatsDirect 3.1.21 (Dec 18, 2018)
- Axis scaling bug in intra-class correlation plots fixed.
- Updated data grid and report tools.
New in StatsDirect 3.1.20 (Jul 19, 2018)
- Odds ratio meta-anlysis added further resilience to sparse input data.
- Updated data grid and report tools.
New in StatsDirect 3.1.18 (May 5, 2018)
- Non-central t distribution now stable to extreme values.
New in StatsDirect 3.1.17 (Apr 2, 2018)
- Forest plot now displays infinite confidence limits with an arrow if * is entered in the relevant cell of the input data worksheet.
New in StatsDirect 3.1.15 (Mar 25, 2018)
- Fixed potential problem closing StatsDirect if open with a linked Excel workbook.
New in StatsDirect 3.1.14.0 RC (Dec 24, 2017)
- When the interface shows a large group of options, it now displays a checkbox that allows you to quickly select all/none of these options.
- In distributions, StatsDirect will now calculate and place the result into the report if the user presses Run instead of Calculate.
- Gini now works correctly with weights. Select one data variable in order to be offered the option of weights.
- Univariate summary no longer writes three trailing rows of zeros to the worksheet when saving results to the worksheet.
- Summary meta-analysis now works correctly when working with standard error.
- If an error occurs while setting up tools, StatsDirect will no longer crash.
New in StatsDirect 3.1.12.0 RC (Nov 7, 2017)
- Gini coefficients of inequality can now be calculated using weights.
- All preference settings are now stored per user. If you're in an organisation that uses roaming Windows profiles, all your preferences will now follow you between machines.
- Minimum and maximum text sizes on charts are now limited, to prevent text that is invisibly small or larger than the chart.
- Grid selection is now correctly cleared when you get a validation error during a selection.
- In preparation for Windows Store deployment, StatsDirect will in future be moving to a minimum .Net Framework version of 4.6.1 rather than its current minimum of 4.0. 4.6.1 can be installed on all versions of Windows for which Microsoft provides support (Windows 7 Service Pack 1 onwards). Older versions of the .Net Framework are now unmaintained, so we would recommend that users ensure at least .Net version 4.6.1 is installed on their computers to stay secure..
New in StatsDirect 3.1.11.0 RC (Oct 2, 2017)
- There is no longer a StatsDirect 3 folder on the Start menu containing a StatsDirect shortcut. StatsDirect 3 is now simply named StatsDirect, and is available directly from the Start menu.
- When exporting an Enhanced MetaFile from a report, the exported file now has a .emf suffix rather than the older .wmf suffix.
- We've added a 'black box' to record information on StatsDirect crashes and errors. This is not sent to StatsDirect automatically; we may ask for the contents of the file if we are supporting a user with an issue that we cannot reproduce.
- Gini inequality: the variance coefficient is now correctly displayed in the report.
- There are no longer extra blank lines in the output of univariate summary.
- Rotating a block of data no longer includes empty rows beyond the end of the data.
- The error message is now meaningful when an expression cannot be evaluated because it specifies variables that are not defined, for example searching for X1 > X2 when there is only one column.
New in StatsDirect 3.1.9.0 RC (Sep 28, 2017)
- In group preference randomisation, if there are missing data (i.e. a subject only had stated one preference out of three) then the missing data are filled by repeating the only stated preference. If there is more than one stated preference then the blanks are filled with the first preference.
- Extracting a subset of numeric values now correctly produces numeric results.
- When plotting a survival plot, the Show Legend option is now correctly checked by default if there is more than one series.
- Search and Replace (Advanced) now runs to completion.
- Search and Replace (Advanced) now correctly shows or hides the replacement expression / value text box depending on whether it is required.
New in StatsDirect 3.1.8.0 RC (Aug 12, 2017)
- All charts should now use neater text for axis labels. Notably, log charts with scales covering several orders of magnitude should now use labels that are considerably shorter.
- Moved to a newer version of our spreadsheet component. This adds support for Excel 2013 and 2016 workbooks, including the new functions within Excel and features such as conditional bar chart formatting.
New in StatsDirect 3.1.7.0 RC (Aug 7, 2017)
- Fixed bug with long labels in forest plots.
- Fixed P value formatting in some reports.
- Refined formatting in many reports.
- Updated report editor.
New in StatsDirect 3.1.4.0 RC (Jun 19, 2017)
- Date axes on control charts now behave like any other axis, including text rotation and format selection.
- The X axis of a scatter chart may now be a date axis.
- It is now possible to show relative frequencies on a text histogram.
- User-entered minimum and maximum scale values for chart axes are now always respected.
- User-entered minimum and maximum scale values for chart axes now work intuitively for non-linear axes.
- Rotated labels on a chart's X axis are now always drawn within the plot area.
- Legends no longer overlap axis labels on charts.
- The X axis title is now always drawn near the axis, rather than sometimes dropping below a legend.
- Category labels are now correctly drawn on text box-and-whisker plots.
- Text histograms now use the "StatsDirect Mid-point" bin and mid-point selection algorithm by default, which aims to produce short labels for histogram bins.
- It is now possible to replay randomisation operations from reports.
- For information for system administrators: the certificate with which the StatsDirect installers and binaries are signed has been updated.
New in StatsDirect 3.1.3.0 RC (Jun 16, 2017)
- User-entered minimum and maximum scale values for chart axes are now always respected.
- User-entered minimum and maximum scale values for chart axes now work intuitively for non-linear axes.
- Rotated labels on a chart's X axis are now always drawn within the plot area.
- Legends no longer overlap axis labels on charts.
- The X axis title is now always drawn near the axis, rather than sometimes dropping below a legend.
- Category labels are now correctly drawn on text box-and-whisker plots.
- Text histograms now use the "StatsDirect Mid-point" bin and mid-point selection algorithm by default, which aims to produce short labels for histogram bins.
- It is now possible to replay randomisation operations from reports.
- For information for system administrators: the certificate with which the StatsDirect installers and binaries are signed has been updated.
New in StatsDirect 3.1.1.0 RC (May 11, 2017)
- New code signing certificate.
New in StatsDirect 3.1.0.0 RC (May 3, 2017)
- Transition to new report template technology completed.
- Transition to new charting technology completed.
New in StatsDirect 3.0.199 RC (Apr 12, 2017)
- Recent problem with text-based charts resolved.
- Recent problem with formatting of some P values resolved.
- New technology for report templates fully implemented.
New in StatsDirect 3.0.198 RC (Mar 16, 2017)
- Fixed problem displaying chart in normality analysis.
New in StatsDirect 2.8.0 / 3.0.194 RC (Feb 28, 2017)
- Time series summary now runs as expected.
- Improved handling of missing data in situations where row labels have different missingness to data.
- When a histogram is plotted with both a normal curve and relative frequencies, it will now be correctly scaled.
- Bias assessment plots in meta-analyses should now show both arms of the funnel.
New in StatsDirect 3.0.193 RC (Feb 16, 2017)
- Fixed log-axis labelling issue with new axis system
- When plotting a histogram with so few samples that skewness is not meaningful, Doune bin calculation now assumes a skewness of 0 rather than failing
New in StatsDirect 3.0.192 RC (Feb 15, 2017)
- Fixed log-axis labelling issue with new axis system.
New in StatsDirect 3.0.191 RC (Feb 10, 2017)
- New axis auto-scaling system for charts.
- New axis scaling and labelling system for charts following Talbot, J., Lin, S., Hanrahan, P. (2010) An Extension of Wilkinson's Algorithm for Positioning Tick Labels on Axes, InfoVis 2010.
- Log ratio plots now use log-natural scale rather than log-10.
- Running an operation that requests options immediately after follow-on operations will now show all of the options.
- The right-hand labels on a control chart are now correctly positioned within the plot area.
New in StatsDirect 3.0.183 RC (Nov 2, 2016)
- Wilcoxon Signed Ranks will no longer occasionally fail with some data, and is now more memory-efficient.
- ROC now correctly includes the text part of the report.
- Regression tests will no longer fail if there is an invalid session.ser file in the user's directory.
- Multiple linear regression and randomisation operations now use tables rather than tabs to display their output, allowing dynamic layout depending on the data.
- Developers writing their own operations to add to StatsDirect now get much improved IntelliSense when editing operations in tools that support XML Schema.
New in StatsDirect 3.0.182 RC (Nov 2, 2016)
- When determining the recommended number of bins for a given histogram, you can now select from several different algorithms to calculate good bin sizes. Choose your algorithm, then click Auto Bins to see the chosen bins.
- When exporting data to R via the clipboard, column names will now be preserved intact rather than converted to valid R variable names.
- When copying a chart from a report to paste into Powerpoint, right-clicking and copying will now correctly copy the chart as a vector.
- Boxes for ranges of numbers (usually used for the power in sample size calculations) are now large enough to show all the digits.
- Spearman's Rank Correlation now correctly produces its report only once.
- The StatsDirect 3 Excel add-in now requires Excel 2007+, is somewhat more efficient, and its error messages are easier to distinguish from the StatsDirect 2 add-in. Note that Excel 2007 is the oldest version of Excel still supported by Microsoft.
New in StatsDirect 3.0.181 RC (Sep 12, 2016)
- Help file updated.
- Fixed problem with activating some follow-on tests.
- Report editor updated.
- Refined the hisogram automatic selection of number of bins
New in StatsDirect 3.0.179 RC (Sep 6, 2016)
- Anthropometric z-score calculation is now available for the common child growth references.
- StatsDirect can now import "Excel-format" (IETF standard, see RFC4180) comma-separated value files.
- Pasting table data from Microsoft Access will now work.
- Many more reports now use tables rather than tabs, allowing neater columns when non-default rounding is used.
- Multiple histograms on one image are no longer required to share the same X scale.
- Labels in the Population Pyramid chart now use the standard label size.
- Installer warns about the optimisation of StatsDirect that now takes place at the end of installation.
New in StatsDirect 3.0.177 RC (Jul 6, 2016)
- Histogram bins are now calculated according to Shimazaki and Shinomoto, Neural Comput 19 1503-1527, 2007. In most cases, this should improve the number of bins chosen automatically.
- Histograms are now placed on conventional scale axes.
- On installation, the optimised version of StatsDirect is now generated at the end of the setup process.
- On a scaled display, colour wells on charts are now shown at a reasonable size.
- On a scaled display, replaying charts now correctly sizes the chart labels and titles.
New in StatsDirect 3.0.171 RC (May 4, 2016)
- Spearman's rank correlation report now includes Spearman's score, and supplies an approximate P value in the presence of ties.
- LOESS report now includes the polynomial degree and span.
- Superscripts and subscripts now appear correctly in reports.
- A number of issues that could occur when using StatsDirect in non-English locales (notably Turkish and Azerbaijani) have been fixed.
- With multi-monitor setups, the StatsDirect "loading" logo should now always appear on the monitor on which the main StatsDirect window will be displayed
New in StatsDirect 3.0.161 RC (Dec 10, 2015)
- StatsDirect will now prompt for at least R version 3.0.0 if you try to use Method Comparison Regression (package mcr is not available in earlier R versions).
- Conditional Logistic Regression now correctly displays deviance and deviance chi-square values.
- Normality tests: skewness, kurtosis, Royston chi-square, Shapiro-Wilk W and Shapiro-Francia W are now correctly displayed.
- Logit and probit plots with log10 dose values now draw correct regression line and confidence limits.
- Quantile Confidence Interval now allows the confidence level to be varied.
- Printing to PDF from Print Preview enabled.
- Cronbach's alpha is now the first suggested follow-on operation after PCA.
New in StatsDirect 3.0.158 RC (Dec 10, 2015)
- Fixed bug in new, more efficient data system.
New in StatsDirect 3.0.157 RC (Dec 10, 2015)
- Updated report editor.
- Updated data editor.
- Fixed bug on replay of histgrams - now remembers bin count selected.
- Improved data selection system - less memory used and empty columns filtered out.
New in StatsDirect 3.0.155 RC (Sep 14, 2015)
- Updated report editor.
- Updated data editor.
- Improved placement of update dialog box on startup.
- Selecting multiple columns for repeated application of functions now drops columns with too few data.
- Improved scaling of some dialog boxes and icons on high resolution screens.
- Presence of Windows 10 reported in the About box.
- Reduced memory requirements after inserting very large amounts of data into worksheets.
New in StatsDirect 3.0.152 RC (Aug 17, 2015)
- Correction to box & whisker plot quantiles with certain datasets.
- Enhanced report editor.
New in StatsDirect 3.0.150 RC (May 2, 2015)
- Contracting data from rows to counts can now handle covariates and includes a range of options for dealing with response data.
- Added Graphics_Bar/Column (Frequency) to chart counts/proportions of categorical variables quickly.
- StatsDirect should no longer crash on startup in unusual circumstances where an over-eager anti-virus scanners tries to scan a generated DLL before the DLL is completely generated.
New in StatsDirect 3.0.147 RC (Apr 20, 2015)
- Welch F test added to one way ANOVA heterogeneity functions.
- Improved pasting of StatsDirect data into R via the context menu item in worksheets.
- Improved control over width of columns in data grid of chi-square tests on-screen.
New in StatsDirect 3.0.146 RC (Mar 23, 2015)
- Redundant dialog about x axis attributes in histograms removed.
- Updated report editor.
- Updated data editor.
- Streamlined installer.
New in StatsDirect 3.0.143 RC (Mar 23, 2015)
- Kappa: User defined weights are now available in the screen data entry version.
- Error bar chart: If two error bars would over-print each other, the user can request a slight horizontal separation so that the vertical lines for all error bars can be seen discretely.
- Line charts should no longer throw NullPointerExceptions when plotting.
- Where a follow-on function requires no parameters to run, there is now a clearer prompt as to how to run the function.
- When replaying an operation from a report, the replay will now succeed if columns of the same length are required.
- Network managers can now set a registry setting to suppress the auto-check for updates that occurs at startup. Please contact StatsDirect Limited for details.
New in StatsDirect 3.0.141 RC (Feb 24, 2015)
- Spread plot now allows selection by group identifier instead of separate columns of data.
- Fixed problem in the situation where a default web browser is not available when performing updates.
- Updated report editor.
New in StatsDirect 3.0.139 RC (Feb 13, 2015)
- Fixed bug in new data selection for descriptive statistics.
- Fixed problem with installation on some 32-bit Windows installations.
New in StatsDirect 3.0.137 RC (Feb 3, 2015)
- Poisson regression now remembers between operations whether the user last wished to enter counts or counts+exposure.
- Selecting incidence rate ratio (relative risk) follow on function in Poisson regression now correctly requests the covariate; you no longer have to click "Run" to run the operation.
- 2 by k chi-square now allows editing of invalid user-entered data, rather than requiring re-entry if any data is invalid.
- All screen operations, including 2 by k chi-square, now behave correctly if more than columns of data are pasted into the dialog than the operation expects.
- When you use data without header rows, StatsDirect is now better at deducing that text columns also do not have header rows.
- The dialog to update StatsDirect should no longer cause the entire application to show a wait cursor.
- Forest plots now correctly draw a vertical marker at 0 or 1 if the user selects this in the chart options.
- When filling in chart options, the interval between tics on a chart with a small range is now displayed correctly.
- Program errors when using the spreadsheet are now unlikely to cause StatsDirect to crash.
New in StatsDirect 3.0.136 RC (Jan 22, 2015)
- Fixed bug in new presentation of logistic regression main results.
New in StatsDirect 3.0.135 RC (Jan 10, 2015)
- .Improved formatting of logistic regression output.
- Added model selection function to logistic regression.
- Fixed bug when trying to add user-defined weights to kappa.
- Updated workbook data grid editor.
- Improved cursor-change consistency in wait states.
- Added selection by group identifier option to box and whisker plot.
New in StatsDirect 3.0.134 RC (Dec 29, 2014)
- Added Monte Carlo simulation of P for r by c chi-square tests for independence, equality and trend.
- Workbook data grid editor updated.
New in StatsDirect 3.0.133 RC (Dec 27, 2014)
- More accurate asymptotic confidence intervals for kappa and weighted kappa.
New in StatsDirect 3.0.132 RC (Dec 23, 2014)
- Fisher-Freeman-Halton exact P now calculated for a wider range of sparse r by c tables, and errors are reported rather than stopping the other calculations.
- Workbook data grid editor updated.
New in StatsDirect 3.0.130 RC (Dec 8, 2014)
- Refinements to time series summary statistics.
- Updated report editor.
- Updated installer technology.
New in StatsDirect 3.0.129 Beta (Dec 3, 2014)
- Extended time series summary statistics.
- Fixed mis-alignment of rows in saving fits and residuals from logistic regression in the presence of missing records.
New in StatsDirect 3.0.128 Beta (Nov 22, 2014)
- Fixed bug in rescaling axes from linear to log in the presence of impossible log(values).
- Fixed bug in version update dialog not closing on detecting a newer version on the server.
- Added a more explicit message about the optimisation process at the end of installation.
New in StatsDirect 3.0.126 Beta (Nov 10, 2014)
- Fixed bug in data input forms affecting 2 by 2 tables.
New in StatsDirect 3.0.125 Beta (Nov 10, 2014)
- R by C chi-square now remembers the selection "Try exact test".
- Groups of checkboxes throughout the interface will now correctly remember previous selections.
- Univariate summary statistics now include interquartile range.
- Time series summary now defaults to doing exact P.
- Time series summary now correctly detects when there are too few points to calculate regression slope or standard error, and marks the relevant values as missing.
- StatsDirect will alert the user at as it starts if it detects that a more recent version is available on the StatsDirect site..
- Pressing F9 after selecting multiple columns, then pressing F9 again no longer gives an error message.
New in StatsDirect 3.0.124 Beta (Oct 16, 2014)
- Fixed data selection error in multiple regression when automatic dummy ariable creation is prompted for.
- Fixed reporting of a second user-selected centile in the univariate summary of descriptive statistics.
New in StatsDirect 3.0.123 Beta (Sep 6, 2014)
- If StatsDirect cannot copy its example file to the user's Documents folder on startup, it will now continue normally.
- StatsDirect should now correctly copy new versions of its example file to the user's Documents folder on startup, renaming existing files with _1, _2 etc. suffixes.
- Forest plots now correctly show lower confidence limits below 0 and upper confidence limits above 1 where the plot is of differences, not ratios.
- Two way ANOVA now correctly asks for treatment then block identifier when entering data by identifiers.
- Two way repeated measures ANOVA now correctly asks for treatment and block identifiers, not treatment and repeat identifiers, when entering data by identifiers.
- When checking for updates, the update form now closes if the user elects to download a new version of R.
New in StatsDirect 3.0.121 Beta (Aug 26, 2014)
- Added bootstrap comparison of areas under time-concentration curves.
- Updated report editor.
New in StatsDirect 3.0.120 Beta (Aug 16, 2014)
- Initial implementation of Time Series Summary.
- In Distributions, changing the degrees of freedom then inverting works as intended.
- X-axis titles of histograms with staggered labels are now drawn correctly.
- Y-axis titles of box and whisker plots are now positioned correctly.
- Vertical spread plots now correctly draw all their series.
- Box and Whisker and Spread plots in vertical mode now have their labels in the correct order.
- Rotated label text on the chart Y axis is correctly positioned.
New in StatsDirect 3.0.119 Beta (Jul 29, 2014)
- Fixed error in running charts in agreement analyses, linearised estimates and polynomial regression.
New in StatsDirect 3.0.118 Beta (Jul 28, 2014)
- Checking for StatsDirect updates now also checks for R updates.
- After an operation outputs data into a grid, grid now has the keyboard focus.
- Previewing a chart now correctly picks up legend changes.
- Charts now remain the same size after cutting and pasting or saving and opening a report.
- Survival plots now correctly show legends for all series if there is more than one, drawn on the left of the chart.
- Error bar, line and scatter plots now correctly have the options to create a legend if more than one series is plotted.
- Forest plots resulting from meta-analysis now match the Graphics style, with grey squares and black central marker dots.
- In normal plot, the user's choice of marker style is now respected.
- In Cox regression, the user can now override the prompt to treat an integer column with a small number of categories as a category variable.
- In simple linear regression, rows with any missing data are now correctly dropped.
- In error bar plots, rows with any missing data are now correctly dropped.
New in StatsDirect 3.0.117 Beta (May 13, 2014)
- Fixed presentation of reports in univariate summaries with deslected items
New in StatsDirect 3.0.116 Beta (May 12, 2014)
- Improved appearance of Forest plots
- Extended control over chart features
- Easier renaming of worksheets
New in StatsDirect 3.0.113 Beta (Apr 14, 2014)
- Fixed error report in Fisher exact P calculation with some R>C tables.
New in StatsDirect 3.0.112 Beta (Apr 10, 2014)
- Improvements to ANOVA multiple comparison functions.
New in StatsDirect 3.0.111 Beta (Apr 10, 2014)
- Correction to scaling of survival plot.
New in StatsDirect 3.0.110 Beta (Apr 10, 2014)
New in StatsDirect 3.0.109 Beta (Apr 10, 2014)
- Enhanced axis scaling for (log) ratios in forest plots.
- Altered display of standardised effects and variances in meta-analysis.
New in StatsDirect 3.0.108 Beta (Apr 5, 2014)
- Added standardised effect and variance display to all meta-analyses.
- Enhanced forest plots: neater log scales.
- Enhanced display of logistic fits and residuals when observations are dropped.
- Improved meta-analyses with sparse tables.
New in StatsDirect 3.0.107 Beta (Mar 28, 2014)
- Added Expand and Contract functions to Data_Organizing for flipping between individual and grouped data presentations.
- Stratified relative risk analysis following crosstabs now shows a forest plot.
- Intelligent sensing of column titles improved.
- Logistic regression residuals are now available in both individual observation and grouped covariate pattern forms.
New in StatsDirect 3.0.106 Beta (Mar 25, 2014)
- Improved handling of international decimal separators in expressions.
- Fixed bug in transfer of stratified binary data from crosstabs to meta-analyses.
- Fixed bug in theta calculation with Mann-Whitney.
- Fixed problems calculating multiple and negative ROC curves.
- Improved user-interaction over selection of text where numeric data are expected.
New in StatsDirect 3.0.105 Beta (Mar 20, 2014)
- Improved handling of international decimal separators in expressions.
- Fixed bug in transfer of stratified binary data from crosstabs to meta-analyses.
- Fixed bug in theta calculation with Mann-Whitney.
- Fixed problems calculating multiple and negative ROC curves.
- Improved user-interaction over selection of text where numeric data are expected.
New in StatsDirect 3.0.104 Beta (Feb 26, 2014)
- Improved Method Comparison Regression.
- Detection of native image or JIT operation via the about box.
- Updates to test workbook are now delivered to the user data folder.
New in StatsDirect 3.0.101 Beta (Feb 18, 2014)
- Added Method Comparison Regression functions (Deming, Passing-Bablok etc.).
- Added Gwet's AC1 satatistic to categorical agreement analysis with two raters.
- Improved spreadsheet compatability with Excel.
- Updated report editor.
- Various bug-fixes and refinements at user-interaction level.
New in StatsDirect 3.0.97 Beta (Nov 16, 2013)
- Fixed problem with having both StatsDirect 2 and 3 Excel add-ins running side-by-side.
New in StatsDirect 3.0.96 Beta (Nov 14, 2013)
- Text or numerical data can now be selected in the worksheet and exported to R.
- Read-only workbooks in SDW (Version 2) format can now be opened in Version 3 when StatsDirect 2 is installed.
- Installer now gives a separate desktop icon for Version 3 so that it does not over-write version 2.
- Excel style filters can now be used in StatsDirect workbooks, and when data are selected for analysis the filtered out rows will be skipped.
New in StatsDirect 3.0.95 Beta (Oct 31, 2013)
- Further R integration (stage 3: enhanced formatting of output in reports, consistent with StastDirect native functions).
- Proportion meta-analysis gives option of two inversion methods: Stuart-Ord (long-standing Statsdirect approach, and least susceptible to transformation bias) and Miller (for consistency with other software).
- Fixed bug in displaying ROC plots.
- Automatic conversion of StatsDirect 2 (*.SDW) data files to StatsDirect 3 (*.XLSX) when StatsDirect 2 is also installed.
- Mean +/- Standard Error option added to Box & Whisker plots.
- Desktop icon renamed StatsDirect 3 so as not to overwrite the StatsDirect 2 icon.
- Double clicking on the license information in the About box and entering new license information now automatically updates the About box text.
- Updated report editor component.
New in StatsDirect 3.0.94 Beta (Oct 29, 2013)
- Further R integration (stage 2: script access).
- Improved LOESS local polynomial regression / curve fitting.
- Installer message to wait for optimization to complete.
- Corrected new proportion meta-analysis with extreme data and Miller inverse double arcsine function, pending simulation experiments with new variance stabilisation approaches (next update).
- Update checking now covers the beta for version 3 as well as version 2 from the website.
New in StatsDirect 3.0.93 Beta (Oct 29, 2013)
- R integration (stage 1).
- Added LOESS local polynomial regression / curve fitting.
- New installer (either 64 or 32 bit installed depending on system).
- Improved layout of dialog area (more consistent labels and buttons).
- Exact confidence intervals for Wilcoxon signed ranks test now works with extreme numbers.
New in StatsDirect 3.0.90 Beta (Oct 29, 2013)
- Faster start-up.
- More instructions and clearer interface when selecting data and setting up calculations.
- Frequency analysis tables can be ordered by value or frequency.
- Small P values can be displayed in scientific notation.
New in StatsDirect 3.0.87 Beta (Oct 29, 2013)
- Fixed chi-square data entry problems when running Windows at high DPI settings.
- When starting StatsDirect from the Excel add-in, the the analysis menus are now shown.
- Simulate exact P from Kappa agreement analysis now runs to completion.
- Crosstabs with two classifiers now runs to completion.
- Standard error of standardized effect now reported in odds ratio meta-analysis.
- Report editor ehnanced.
New in StatsDirect 3.0.86 Beta (Oct 29, 2013)
- Works on both 32-bit and 64-bit Windows, taking advantage of more memory and some speed enahancements on 64-bit Windows.
- Requires .Net version 4 or a later version to be installed on Windows.
- Handles bigger datasets, up to 1M rows/observations and 64K columns/variables, depending on available memory (more via 64-bit Windows).
- Read and write Excel 2010 compatible spreadsheet files.
- Multiple windows for asking questions about calculations are replaced with a user-interation area near the top of the main window.
- New interface for making charts, with preview and more control over elements of the chart.
- New bar chart type.
- More box and whisker chart variants, including fences for outlier demarkation.
- Faster calculation engine throughout, enabling work with larger datasets and a range of new Monte Carlo simulations and permutation tests.
- Exact P simulation for Kruskal-Wallis test.
- Exact P simulation for Friedman test.
- Cochran Q test with exact P simulation.
- Extended chi-square goodness and fit test with exact P simulation.
- Simulate exact P for 2-by-k chi-square tests.
- Simulate exact P for Cohen's kappa with two raters.
- Berry-Mielke Universal R agreement analysis.
- Shapiro-Wilk test replaced with a Normality function under the Parametric menu, incorporating Shapiro-Wilk, Shapiro-Francia, Royston chi-square and a normal plot.
- Correlation meta-analysis.
- Improved help system layout and navigation, in the software and on-line (web and mobile).
- Ability to incorporate expert user-written functions in R, C# or VB.Net: editor coming soon.
New in StatsDirect 2.8.0 (Oct 29, 2013)
- Integration with StatsDirect Version 3.
- Recognition of Windows 8 in the about box.
- Automatic data file conversion to Excel format from the command line.
New in StatsDirect 2.7.9 (Aug 20, 2012)
- Update to deviance statistic in Cox regression with multiple predictors.
New in StatsDirect 2.7.8 (Aug 20, 2012)
- Update for some dialogs in regions where the decimal separator is not a point/period.
New in StatsDirect 2.7.7 (Aug 20, 2012)
- Faster random number generation for simulation.
- Corrected cut-point calculation for quantile grouping with certain datasets.
New in StatsDirect 2.7.6 (Aug 20, 2012)
- Added automatic dropping of observations that are completely determined in logistic or Poisson regression: this will remove the 'boundary hit' messages with some datasets.
- Improved handling of missing response variables in logistic regression with ungrouped response data.
New in StatsDirect 2.7.5 (Aug 20, 2012)
- Improved plots in probit analysis.
New in StatsDirect 2.7.4 (Aug 20, 2012)
- Corrected missing data handling error in frequency analysis denominator.
New in StatsDirect 2.7.3 (Aug 20, 2012)
- Progress bar added to meta-analysis function to give feedback on exact calculations that are taking a long time.
- Adding 1 (or a larger number to raise lowest time value above 0) now automated in Cox regression: not necessary for all functions but makes procedures such as log-log plots more meaningful.
- Corrected column label from "Stratum" to "Group" for combined part of a stratified log-rank test.
New in StatsDirect 2.7.2 (Aug 20, 2012)
New in StatsDirect 2.7.1 (Aug 20, 2012)
- Updated labelling in polynomial regression.
- Enabled upgrade installations without uninstalling.