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     Basic STATS: Version 2
          A program to calculate common statistics results
          from a data file

     written, and compiled in HiSoft BASIC Professional by
          C. Niederberger  2/91

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Ever want a simple, portable program to calculate mean,
     standard error, and perhaps kurtosis and skewness,
     on a data file created by your favorite spreadsheet
     or word processor on your Amiga?  And couldn't find
     one?  Well, neither could I.

So I wrote this simple basic program to take an ASCII file
     (choose "general" on your word processor when saving
     the file, or "print to file" on your spreadsheet) and
     perform these common statistics.

Just make a data file starting with the number of data points
     (it **must** be an integer) followed by those data points
     in any orientation, horizontal or vertical.  Easy!!

For example, if you wanted to calculate the mean, standard
     error, kurtosis, and skewness of the 5 data points 2.33,
     1.456, 13.1, 14.2, and 1.232, just make the file:

          5
          2.33
          1.456
          13.1
          14.2
          1.232

     or alternately:

          5  2.33  1.456
          13.1  14.2  1.232

     and run the program.  The program will ask you where the
     file is, e.g. ram:testdata, and then will print the 
     results.  Simple!!

I use this kind of analysis a lot, and I thought that someone
     out there could possibly use this program.  I don't
     believe in selling public domain programs myself--I
     do something else for a living, and I program for fun.
     But I would appreciate feedback, so just send me some
     EMAIL if you download this program.

I intend to keep writing code for statistics tests, and as long
     as there is any interest, I'll keep downloading these
     programs.  I don't believe in using commercial statistics
     packages (I don't believe in a lot of things) because
     I think the scientist or whoever distances him/herself
     from the analysis, and I HATE seeing commercial statistics
     programs referenced in the scientific literature instead
     of the actual test.  HOW TACKY!  So I included the HiSoft
     BASIC code in this archive as well as the program--modify
     it in any way that you see fit.

Remember--send feedback!

                          Craig Niederberger  2/91

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Updated version:
     Includes file selector (Thanks Jeff Glatt and Steven Kapplin!)
          note:  requires requester.library and requester.bmap
                 (included in this archive) to be placed in
                 libs:
     Better error checking--won't let you select a file that does
          not conform to its expected format
     In general, just a lot prettier!


If anybody's interested--Chi-square and Student's t test programs
     will follow.