Introductory Course - This course is designed to introduce the participant to some of the basic statistical tools in STATISTICA; also an excellent refresher course.
Introduction to STATISTICA - A two-day course with instruction on how to take advantage of the numerous data management, statistical, and graphical tools in STATISTICA.
Introduction to STATISTICA for STATISTICA Data Miner users - A two-day course with instruction on how to take advantage of the numerous data management, statistical, and graphical tools in STATISTICA (for current or prospective STATISTICA Data Miner customers).
Advanced Courses - The following courses are designed to enhance knowledge and understanding of advanced statistical tools in STATISTICA. A working knowledge of STATISTICA is required (note that these courses are typically held after an introductory class).
ANOVA and Regression - This one-day course is designed to introduce the participants to different types of analyses that are based on the General Linear Model and that are used in a wide area of applied statistics.
Multivariate Analysis - A one-day course with instruction in multivariate analytical methods, including MANOVA, Discriminant Function Analysis, Factor Analysis, and Canonical Correlation.
Statistical Process Control - A one-day course which provides users with an understanding of the tools offered in STATISTICA for SPC.
Design of Experiments - A one-day course which provides users with an understanding of the tools offered in STATISTICA for DOE.
STATISTICA Data Miner - A two-day course designed to provide participants with the concepts and experience necessary to begin solving data exploration, data preparation, analytical modeling, and model deployment problems using STATISTICA Data Miner.
STATISTICA Neural Networks - This one-day course is designed to provide the participants with the concepts and experience necessary to begin solving problems with neural networks analysis using STATISTICA Neural Networks.
Graphical Data Analysis - This one-day course is designed to help STATISTICA users to understand what graphical tools are available and how they can be used to explore and learn from data.
Introduction to Visual Basic and STATISTICA Visual Basic - This one-day course is designed to teach STATISTICA users how to use automatically recorded Visual Basic macros to effectively automate and customize interactive procedures.
Visual Basic Applications in STATISTICA - This one-day course, designed for the user familiar with STATISTICA and with the fundamentals of Visual Basic programming, will introduce the STATISTICA Object Model, which captures the functionality of the interactive program in over 10,000 functions accessible through Visual Basic.
To provide users with an understanding of the general conventions, data management, basic statistics, and graphics capabilities of STATISTICA.
To offer users hands-on instruction in data management, basic statistics, and creating and customizing graphs.
To provide participants with an overview of fundamental statistical concepts in an applied setting.
To expose participants to the graphical methods available for exploring data and supporting statistical analysis.
Expert tips on how to optimize the use of STATISTICA will be shared.
Description
This two-day course is designed to instruct the student on how to take advantage of the numerous statistical and graphical tools available in STATISTICA. Step-by-step examples will be given on how to enter and manipulate data (including importing from other file formats such as spreadsheets), perform complete statistical analyses and interpret tabular and graphical results, and create and customize many graph types. The user will be advised on how to optimize the use of STATISTICA. The final part of the course will be devoted to questions of users.
To provide users with an understanding of the general conventions, data management, basic statistics, and graphics capabilities of STATISTICA.
To offer users hands-on instruction in data management, basic statistics, and creating and customizing graphs.
To provide participants with an overview of fundamental statistical concepts in an applied setting.
To expose participants to the graphical methods available for exploring data and supporting statistical analysis.
Expert tips on how to optimize the use of STATISTICA will be shared.
Description
This two-day course is designed to instruct the student on how to take advantage of the numerous statistical and graphical tools available in STATISTICA. Step-by-step examples will be given on how to enter and manipulate data (including importing from other file formats such as spreadsheets), perform complete statistical analyses and interpret tabular and graphical results, and create and customize many graph types. The user will be advised on how to optimize the use of STATISTICA. The final part of the course will be devoted to questions of users.
To provide participants with an overview of SPC fundamentals and to introduce the participants to the SPC capabilities in STATISTICA Quality Control Charts and STATISTICA Process Analysis.
Contents
This one-day course covers the statistical tools involved in SPC including:
Gage Repeatability and Reproducibility Analysis
X-Bar and R/S/S2 Charts
CUSUM Charts
X and Moving Range Charts
Attribute Charts
Moving Average (MA) and Exponentially Weighted Moving Average (EWMA) Charts
To provide participants with an overview of the terms, concepts, and methods involved with generating and analyzing experimental designs and to introduce the participants to the DOE capabilities in STATISTICA Design of Experiments.
Contents
This one-day course covers the fundamental concepts and statistical tools involved in DOE including:
Advantages and Disadvantages of various design types (e.g., factorial and fractional factorial designs, central composite designs, etc.)
Interpreting tabular and graphical results
Concepts involved in generating and analyzing designed experiments
Analysis of residuals
Introduction to the simultaneous optimization of multiple response variables
This one-day course is designed to introduce the participants to different types of analyses that are based on the General Linear Model and that are used in a wide area of applied statistics. Exposure to these techniques will also help to understand related statistical concepts like Experimental Design or gage R&R studies.
To provide participants with a conceptual overview of data mining and its many facets
To develop familiarity with STATISTICA Data Miner's interactive analytical environment
To introduce participants to STATISTICA Data Miner's large selection of models for statistical learning and their application to various types of real-world problems
To provide experience using STATISTICA Data Miner's project workflow environment
To demonstrate how STATISTICA Data Miner can be used to solve common data mining problems such as data preparation, variable selection, deployment of trained models, and more.
Description
This two-day course is designed to provide participants with the concepts and experience necessary to begin solving data exploration, data preparation, analytical modeling, and model deployment problems using STATISTICA Data Miner. The course will focus on providing hands-on experience with the different ways in which each of these problems can be solved using this powerful software tool. For each topic, step-by-step examples will be presented.
To provide a conceptual overview of neural networks
To demonstrate the usefulness and the advantages of neural networks analysis
To provide hands-on experience solving regression, classification, clustering, data reduction, and time series problems using STATISTICA Neural Networks
Description
This one-day course is designed to provide the participants with the concepts and experience necessary to begin solving problems with neural networks analysis using STATISTICA Neural Networks. The course will focus on using this powerful software tool to solve regression, classification, clustering, data reduction, and time series problems. For each topic, step-by-step examples will be presented.
To teach students to use graphs to learn from their data (via exploratory data analyses, data mining, testing for patterns and trends in the data, and 'drill-down' methods)
To provide students with information about graphical methods for exploring distributions of values and relationships among variables
To expose students to specialized graphical tools, such as exploratory brushing (including animated brushing), 3D rotation of graphs, and 'animated stratification' of 3D graphs
To provide students with an overview of the selection of the graphs available in STATISTICA, including various ways of viewing similar information
Description
This course is designed to help STATISTICA users to understand what graphical tools are available and how they can be used to explore and learn from data. Many exploratory graphs (see lists below) will be used to look for relationships among variables, and once discovered, to look at these relationships in greater detail. The student will be shown how some particular graph types can be used to test for hypothesized relationships or trends in the data.
Learning from Data
Histograms
Normal Probability Plots
Box Plots with Outliers
2D Scatterplots
3D Histograms
3D Surface Plots
Scatterplot Matrix
Categorized Graphs
Special Tools
Analytic Brushing
Animated Brushing
Mark Selected Subsets
3D Rotation
3D Animated Stratification
Selection/Appearance of Graphs
2D Graphs: Box Plots, Pie Charts, Quantile Plots, Other Variations
3D Graphs: Surface Plots, Contour Plots; User-defined Surface/Contour Levels
Matrix Graphs: Square, Rectangular; Varied Fit Types
This one-day course, designed for users familiar with STATISTICA but not necessarily familiar with Visual Basic or other computer programming languages, will introduce participants to the STATISTICA Visual Basic (SVB) functionality in STATISTICA. The course will help provide an understanding of SVB programs and will demonstrate the diverse and virtually unlimited potential of using STATISTICA Visual Basic as a development environment for the user's statistical needs.
Description
STATISTICA has opened up new possibilities in statistical computing through its complete integration with Visual Basic, Microsoft's powerful and universally recognized programming language. For the first time, complex data management, statistical analysis, and graphing tasks can be readily automated and extensively customized without learning a proprietary scripting language. The course will enable users to create automatically recorded Visual Basic macros to effectively automate and customize interactive procedures you perform interactively on the screen.
Topics covered in the course will include:
Creating Visual Basic macros from the interactive program
Analysis type macros.
Master macros.
Keyboard macros.
Controlling output.
Customizing recorded macros
Running macros against new data.
Simple changes to increase macro flexibility.
Changing macro parameters.
Introduction to the STATISTICA Object Model.
Using the STATISTICA debugger.
Integrating Visual Basic features with STATISTICA
Understanding data types.
Declaring variables and understanding variable scope.
Understanding sub procedures vs functions procedure.
Passing arguments to procedures.
Using loops and conditional statements to control program execution.
Interacting with users via message boxes and input boxes.
This one-day, advanced course, designed for the user familiar with STATISTICA and with the fundamentals of Visual Basic programming, will introduce the STATISTICA Object Model, which captures the functionality of the interactive program in over 10,000 functions accessible through Visual Basic. The course will begin by using Visual Basic macros that can be automatically recorded when performing interactive analyses in STATISTICA and will proceed (using examples and exercises) through applying successively more detailed modifications to those macros to achieve sophisticated custom applications.
Description
STATISTICAis the first statistical software package to achieve complete integration with an industry standard programming language. Class particpants will see firsthand how essentially the entire functionality of STATISTICA is now available to the Visual Basic programmer for inclusion in custom applications and for automating analyses performed in the interactive program.
Topics covered in the course will include:
Creating Visual Basic macros from the interactive program
Analysis type macros.
Master macros.
Keyboard macros.
Controlling output.
STATISTICA Object Model.
Customizing recorded macros with Visual Basic
Implementing simple changes to increase macro flexibility.
Modifying output control.
Adding custom user interfaces (including creating and implementing user dialogs and forms, variable selection dialogs, custom toolbars, etc).
Subroutines, Functions, Classes, and Objects.
Addressing and implementing Object Model elements and options not represented in automatically recorded macros.
Debugging using the STATISTICA Visual Basic editor.
Specialized Advanced topics
Document-level and Application-level events.
Creating your own external DLLs.
Running STATISTICA Visual Basic programs from other applications.
This one-day course, designed for users of STATISTICA 5, will familiarize participants with the spectrum of new features that make STATISTICA so unique. The course is designed to enhance the user's productivity using STATISTICA with a minimal investment of time.
Description
STATISTICA introduces a new age in statistical computing with a wide variety of groundbreaking features aimed at increasing productivity as well as quality of work. Redesigned from the ground up, STATISTICA 6 introduced major breakthroughs in program architecture, user interfaces, and new features that focus on making data management, statistical analysis, and graphing quicker, more intuitive, more accurate, and more flexibly customizable than ever before. Because STATISTICA is the first statistics package to achieve complete integration of the interactive program with the universally recognized Visual Basic language, STATISTICA's entire functionality is now accessible at any desired level of detail and can be quickly and easily automated.
Topics covered in the course will include:
Navigating the new interface
Increased availability of all features.
New more intuitive specification dialogs for analyses and graphs.
Capturing interactive analyses in Visual Basic scripts
Addressing all aspects of the interactive program.
Using Analysis and Master Macros to automate/repeat analyses.
Custom applications.
Using Spreadsheets
Using as input/output.
Data limitations that have been lifted.
New data types.
New approaches to case selection and weight specification.
New import/export facilities, including OLE DB.
Spreadsheet formatting facilities.
"Multimedia Table" technology.
Protecting your data.
New statistical procedures and functions
Increased speed and capacity for many analyses.
New functions for statistical analysis in spreadsheets, case selection, etc.
Using Workbooks
Organizing and storing related input and output data, data of all kinds.
Creating and controlling workbooks to fit the task at hand.
Moving items in and out of workbooks.
Using Reports
Presenting your work in final draft quality.
Creating and specifying output to reports.
Use of the built-in word-processing features in reports.
Moving items in and out of reports.
New approaches to Graphing
Four basic approaches.
New graph types.
Graph customization including use of Graph Styles.
Graphical exploratory tools including new zoom and brushing features.
Managing configurations of STATISTICA
Global options for addressing all major features.
Using the Configuration Manager to preserve/protect separate sets of global options.
Curriculum. Customized training by the same instructors as the scheduled courses. The topics to be covered are tailored to meet your specific needs; this means more time devoted to the topics in which you are most interested.
Held at your convenience and location; Individual or Groups. On-Site training
can be scheduled to accommodate your specific needs. By training at your location, you save transportation and lodging expenses.
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