Adding
Add a New Attribute (same as: add a new column)
Adding: attributes
Add a New Attribute (same as: add a new column)
Adding: cases
Add a New Case (same as: add a new row)
Adding: measures
Make a new measure
Adding: objects to document
The definition of the shelf
Aggregate functions
The definition of an aggregate function
Analyses
About Fathom's Analyses
Change the Blue Text in an Analysis
Analyses: controlling blue text in
Change the Blue Text in an Analysis
Analyses: Test menu commands
Test Menu
Analysis of Variance (ANOVA)
Testing for independence
Analyze menu
Analyze Menu
Appearances
The definition of an appearance
Appearances: changing case icons
Changing Case Icons
Appearances: display attributes
Display attributes
Arithmetic functions
Arithmetic functions
Attributes
Add a New Attribute (same as: add a new column)
Attributes: adding to cases
Add a New Attribute (same as: add a new column)
Attributes: case attributes vs. measures
Case attributes and measures
Attributes: defining by formula
Write or Edit a Formula for an Attribute
Attributes: display attributes
Display attributes
Attributes: inserting
How can I insert an attribute in a certain position rather than as the last attribute?
Attributes: moving
How to Move an Attribute
Attributes: numeric vs categorical
Can I use a numeric attribute to split a plot?
Continuous and categorical attributes
Attributes: problems importing names
Fathom imported the first case values as attribute names. What do I do?
Attributes: renaming
Rename an attribute
Axes
Adjust Bounds of Axes
Axes: adjusting
Adjust Bounds of Axes
Adjusting axes--the video
Bar Charts
An example of a bar chart
Make a bar chart
Bell curve
Normal Distribution
Beta distribution
Beta Distribution
Binomial distribution
Binomial Distribution
Boolean expressions
What is a Boolean expression?
Box Plots
An example of a box plot
Make a Box Plot
Box Plots: split
An example of a split box plot
Breakdown Plots
An example of a breakdown plot
Captions
Change the Label on a Case
The definition of a caption
Case attributes
The definition of an attribute
Case functions
The definition of a case function
Case tables
Make a new case table
Sort cases in a Case Table
Case tables: sorting and unsorting
How do I unsort my case table?
Cases
Add a New Case (same as: add a new row)
Cases: adding
Add a New Case (same as: add a new row)
Cases: adding attributes to
Add a New Attribute (same as: add a new column)
Cases: changing labels of
Change the Label on a Case
Cases: deleting
Delete a Case (same as: delete a row)
Categories
The definition of a category
Categories: compared to numbers
Continuous and categorical attributes
Why is my numeric attribute being treated as categorical?
Categories: in a bar chart
Make a bar chart
Categories: in a scatterplot
Show groups within a scatterplot
Cauchy distribution
Cauchy Distribution
Changing size
Change the size of an object (table, graph, etc.)
Chi-square
Chi-square Distribution
Testing for independence
Testing goodness of fit
Chi-square: Chi-square distribution
Chi-square Distribution
Clipboard
Edit Menu
How to get data from the clipboard
Collect measures
Measures collections and what they're for
Collect Measures pane
Use the Collect Measures Pane
Collect Measures pane: from summary table
After collecting measures from a summary table, how do I control when the measures?
Collections
How to Make an Empty Collection
Make a new measure
Collections: adding measures to
Make a new measure
Collections: derived
What are derived collections?
Collections: empty
How to Make and Empty Collection
Collections: measures collections
Measures collections and what they're for
Collections: merging
How do I merge two collections together
Collections: sample collections
Sampling and what it's for
Collections: scrambled collections
Scrambling and what it's for
Collections: stacked collections
Stacking and what it's for
Color
Use third continuous attribute in a scatter plot
Conditional functions
Conditional functions
Confidence intervals
Do a parameter estimate
Context menu
Context Menu
Converting strings to numbers
String functions
Copy
Edit Menu
Copy: attributes
Copy and Paste an Attribute
Copy: cases
Collections
How do I merge two collections together
Copy: in formula editor
Can I copy and paste within the formula editor?
Can I paste a function from one graph into another?
Copy: pictures
Can I paste my Fathom document into another program?
Edit Menu
How to work with Pictures
Correlation coefficient
Calculate least-squares slope and intercept
Data
Import Data from Text
Data menu
Data Menu
Data menu: from graphing calculator
How to read in data
Data menu: from spreadsheet
How to read in data
Data menu: importing from text
Fathom imported the first case values as attribute names. What do I do?
Import Data from Text
Data menu: pasting
How to get data from the clipboard
Deleting
Delete a Case (same as: delete a row)
Deleting: cases
Delete a Case (same as: delete a row)
Deleting: graphs
Delete an object (table, graph, etc.)
Deleting: objects
Delete an object (table, graph, etc.)
Density scale
Background on Density Axes
Derived collections
What are derived collections?
Display attributes
About display attributes
Change the Label on a Case
Changing Case Icons
Display attributes
Display menu
Display Menu
Distributions
Beta Distribution
Binomial Distribution
Cauchy Distribution
Chi-square Distribution
Distribution functions
Exponential Distribution
F Distribution
Gamma Distribution
Geometric Distribution
Hypergeometric Distribution
Normal Distribution
Poisson Distribution
Student's t Distribution
Uniform Distribution
Uniform Lattice Distribution
Distributions: Beta
Beta Distribution
Distributions: Binomial
Binomial Distribution
Distributions: Cauchy
Cauchy Distribution
Distributions: chi-square
Chi-square Distribution
Distributions: exponential
Exponential Distribution
Distributions: F
F Distribution
Distributions: functions
Distribution functions
Distributions: gamma
Gamma Distribution
Distributions: geometric
Geometric Distribution
Distributions: hypergeometric
Hypergeometric Distribution
Distributions: normal
Normal Distribution
Distributions: Poisson
Poisson Distribution
Distributions: Student's t
Student's t Distribution
Distributions: uniform
Uniform Distribution
Distributions: uniform lattice
Uniform Lattice Distribution
Dot Plots
An example of a dot plot
Double-clicking trouble
I double-click and nothing happens. How come?
Dragging data
Dragging data is slow in large files; can I speed things up?
Edit menu
Edit Menu
How to get data from the clipboard
Errors
Formula Errors
Errors: in formulas
Formula Errors
Estimate
The definition of estimate
Estimate: difference of means
Estimate Difference of Means
Estimate: difference of proportions
Estimate Difference of Proportions
Examples
Summary Table Example
Excel
How can I get my Excel (or Word table) data into Fathom?
Excel: transposing in
How can I reverse rows and columns?
Exponential distribution
Exponential Distribution
Expressions
Keyboard Shortcuts in the Formula Editor
Expressions: how to enter
Keyboard Shortcuts in the Formula Editor
F distribution
F Distribution
File menu
File Menu
Filters
I filtered a graph, but the summary table I made from it isn't filtered. What's wrong?
The definition of an filter
Write a Filter
Formula Editor
Keyboard Shortcuts in the Formula Editor
More Keyboard Shortcuts in the Formula Editor
Special Values in the Formula Editor
Use the Formula Editor
Formula Editor: copy and paste in
Can I paste a function from one graph into another?
Formula Editor: function list in
An example of the function List
Formula errors
Formula Errors
Formulas
Formula Errors
Formulas: errors in
Formula Errors
Formulas: for attributes
Write or Edit a Formula for an Attribute
Formulas: for measures
Make a new measure
Formulas: for plotted functions
Plot a Function
Formulas: for plotted values
Plot a value on a univariate plot
Formulas: in analyses
Change the Blue Text in an Analysis
Formulas: in bar charts
Make a bar chart
Formulas: in summary table
Make a Summary Table
Function List
An example of the function List
Use the Formula Editor
Functions
Built-In functions
Functions: arithmetic
Arithmetic functions
Functions: Boolean
Logical functions
Functions: conditional
Conditional functions
Functions: distribution
Distribution functions
Functions: hyperbolic
Trigonometric functions
Functions: logical
Logical functions
Functions: plotting
Plot a Function
Functions: random number
Random number functions
Functions: statistical
Statistical functions
Functions: string
String functions
Functions: trigonometric
Trigonometric functions
Gamma distribution
Gamma Distribution
Geometric distribution
Geometric Distribution
Getting started
How to Get Started
Getting started: by pasting data
How to get data from the clipboard
Getting started: by reading in data
How to get data from the Internet
How to read in data
Getting started: from scratch
How to enter data from scratch
Graphs
Make a Graph
Make a residual plot
Ntigrams
Plot a value on a univariate plot
Types of Graphs
Zoom in to a graph
Graphs: bar charts
An example of a bar chart
Make a bar chart
Graphs: box plots
An example of a box plot
Make a Box Plot
Graphs: breakdown plots
An example of a breakdown plot
Graphs: changing size of
Change the size of an object (table, graph, etc.)
Graphs: deleting
Delete an object (table, graph, etc.)
Graphs: dot plots
An example of a dot plot
Graphs: Graph menu commands
Graph Menu
Graphs: hiding
Hide an object (table, graph, etc.)
Graphs: histograms
An example of a histogram
Graphs: how to make
Making a graph--the video
Graphs: identifying parts of
Identifying points
Graphs: legends
Make a bar chart
Show groups within a scatterplot
Use third continuous attribute in a scatter plot
Graphs: line scatter plots
An example of a line scatter plot
Graphs: normal probability plots
An example of a normal quantile plot
Graphs: normal quantile plots
An example of a normal quantile plot
Graphs: Ntigrams
An example of an ntigram
Ntigrams
Graphs: overlapping with tables
Overlap objects (especially graphs and tables)
Graphs: percentile plots
An example of a percentile plot
Graphs: plotting functions
Plot a Function on a Scatter Plot
Graphs: plotting values on
Plot a value on a univariate plot
Graphs: residual plots
Make a residual plot
Why isn't Make Residual Plot in the Graph menu enabled?
Graphs: ribbon charts
An example of a ribbon chart
Graphs: scatter plots
Add a Line to a Scatter plot
An example of a scatter plot
Make a residual plot
Make a Scatter plot
Show groups within a scatterplot
Use third continuous attribute in a scatter plot
Graphs: split box plots
An example of a split box plot
Graphs: split dot plots
An example of a split dot plot
Graphs: split histograms
An example of a split histogram
Can I get a "split" histogram that compares the distribution of two different attributes?
Graphs: split normal quantile plots
An example of a split normal quantile plot
Graphs: split ntigrams
An example of a split ntigram
Graphs: split percentile plots
An example of a split percentile plot
Graphs: types of
Types of Graphs
Graphs: zooming in
Zoom in to a graph
Help menu
Help Menu
Hiding objects
Hide an object (table, graph, etc.)
Histograms
An example of a histogram
Histograms: controlling bin widths
How can I get exact histogram bin widths and boundaries?
Histograms: split
An example of a split histogram
Hyperbolic functions
Trigonometric functions
Hypergeometric distribution
Hypergeometric Distribution
Hypothesis tests
Do a hypothesis test
Tests; Types of hypothesis tests
Icons
Changing Case Icons
Importing data
Import Data from Text
Importing data: from Excel
How can I get my Excel (or Word table) data into Fathom?
Inference
About Fathom's Analyses
Do a hypothesis test
Inference: comparing proportions
Comparing proportions
Inference: estimating means
Estimating the mean
Inference: estimating proportion
Estimating proportion
Inference: estimating slope and intercept
Estimating slope and intercept
Inference: hypothesis tests
Do a hypothesis test
Tests; Types of hypothesis tests
Inference: parameter estimates
Do a parameter estimate
Types of parameter estimates
Inference: testing for independence
Testing for independence
Inference: testing goodness of fit
Testing goodness of fit
Inference: testing means
Comparing two means
Testing the mean
Inference: testing proportions
Testing a proportion
Insert menu
Insert Menu
Inserting attributes
How can I insert an attribute in a certain position rather than as the last attribute?
Inspectors
What are inspectors for?
Inspectors: adding cases from
Add a New Case (same as: add a new row)
Inspectors: collect measures pane
Use the Collect Measures Pane
Inspectors: sample pane
Use the Sample Pane
Inspectors: scramble pane
Use the Scramble Pane
Inspectors: stack pane
Use the Stack Pane
Internet
How to get data from the Internet
Internet: importing data from
How to get data from the Internet
Interquartile range
About Calculating Interquartile Range
isNumber
Why is my numeric attribute being treated as categorical?
Keyboard Shortcuts
Keyboard Shortcuts in the Formula Editor
More Keyboard Shortcuts in the Formula Editor
Keypad
Use the Formula Editor
Labels
Change the Label on a Case
Labels: of cases
Change the Label on a Case
Least-squares lines
Add a Line to a Scatter plot
Calculate least-squares slope and intercept
Test Correlation
Test Slope
Legends
Make a bar chart
Show groups within a scatterplot
Use third continuous attribute in a scatter plot
length of string function
String functions
Line Scatter Plots
An example of a line scatter plot
linRegrIntercept
How can I access the linear regression equation and evaluate it at given values?
linRegrSlope
How can I access the linear regression equation and evaluate it at given values?
Lock Collection
How can I protect the data from being changed?
Logical functions
Logical functions
Means
Comparing two means
Estimating the mean
Testing the mean
Means: estimating
Estimating the mean
Means: testing
Comparing two means
Testing the mean
Measures
Collecting Measures from Summary Tables
Define a statistic for a Measures Collection
Make a new measure
Measures collections and what they're for
The definition of a measure
Use the Collect Measures Pane
Measures Collections
Make a Measures Collection
Use the Collect Measures Pane
Measures Collections: defining
Define a statistic for a Measures Collection
Measures Collections: for sampling
Define a statistic for a Sample
Median-median lines
Add a Line to a Scatter plot
The Median-Median line
Menus
File Menu
Menus: Analyze menu
Analyze Menu
Menus: Context menus
Context Menu
Menus: Data menu
Data Menu
Menus: Display menu
Display Menu
Menus: Edit menu
Edit Menu
Menus: File menu
File Menu
Menus: Graph menu
Graph Menu
Menus: Help menu
Help Menu
Menus: Insert menu
Insert Menu
Menus: Summary menu
Summary Menu
Menus: Test menu
Test Menu
Menus: Window menu
Window Menu
Merge collections
How do I merge two collections together
Metafile
Edit Menu
How do I paste a picture into Fathom?
mode
How can I compute the mode
Moving
Change the size of an object (table, graph, etc.)
How to Move an Attribute
Moving: attributes
How to Move an Attribute
Moving: objects
Change the size of an object (table, graph, etc.)
N or N minus one
Whether to Use N or N1 (in S.D.)
Network installation
How do I install Fathom on a network?
New
Add a New Attribute (same as: add a new column)
Add a New Case (same as: add a new row)
New: attributes
Add a New Attribute (same as: add a new column)
New: cases
Add a New Case (same as: add a new row)
Normal approximation
Estimate Difference of Proportions
Normal distribution
Normal Distribution
Normal Quantile Plots
An example of a normal quantile plot
Ntigrams
An example of an ntigram
Ntigrams
Ntigrams: split
An example of a split ntigram
Numeric attributes
Continuous and categorical attributes
Numeric attributes: splitting with
Can I use a numeric attribute to split a plot?
Objects
Fathom's objects
The definition of an object
Objects to document
Can I paste my Fathom document into another program?
Objects to document: changing size of
Change the size of an object (table, graph, etc.)
Objects to document: deleting
Delete an object (table, graph, etc.)
Objects to document: double-clicking
I double-click and nothing happens. How come?
Objects to document: hiding
Hide an object (table, graph, etc.)
Objects to document: inserting
Insert Menu
Objects to document: making new
The definition of the shelf
Objects to document: moving
Change the size of an object (table, graph, etc.)
Objects to document: overlapping
Overlap objects (especially graphs and tables)
Objects to document: text
Make a Text Object
Objects to document: viewing in windows
View an object in a separate window
Order of cases
How do I unsort my case table?
Overlapping objects
Overlap objects (especially graphs and tables)
Page breaks
How can I see the page breaks before I print?
Parameter estimates
Do a parameter estimate
Types of parameter estimates
Parameters
Make a Slider
Parameters: variable
Make a Slider
Paste
Edit Menu
Paste: in formula editor
Can I copy and paste within the formula editor?
Can I paste a function from one graph into another?
Paste: pictures
How do I paste a picture into Fathom?
Percentile Plots
An example of a percentile plot
An example of a split percentile plot
Percentile Plots: split
An example of a split percentile plot
Pictures
Edit Menu
How do I paste a picture into Fathom?
How to work with Pictures
Plot Value command
How do I plot a vertical line on a scatter plot?
Plot a value on a univariate plot
Plotting
Plot a value on a univariate plot
Plotting: functions
Plot a Function on a Scatter Plot
Plotting: lines
Add a Line to a Scatter plot
Plotting: values (e.g.: mean)
Plot a value on a univariate plot
Poisson distribution
Poisson Distribution
Preferences
Edit Menu
Proportions
Estimating proportion
Testing a proportion
Proportions: comparing
Comparing proportions
Proportions: estimating
Estimate Difference of Proportions
Estimating proportion
Proportions: testing
Testing a proportion
Protect data
How can I protect the data from being changed?
Random number functions
Random number functions
Random sampling
How can I sample a randomly determined number of cases?
rank
How can I compute the mode
Regression
How can I access the linear regression equation and evaluate it at given values?
Renaming attributes
Rename an attribute
Rerandomizing
Can all separate rerandomizations be saved separately?
Residual Plots
How can I access the linear regression equation and evaluate it at given values?
Make a residual plot
Why isn't Make Residual Plot in the Graph menu enabled?
Revert Collection
How can I protect the data from being changed?
Ribbon Charts
An example of a ribbon chart
Sample pane
Use the Sample Pane
Sampling
Make a Sample Collection
Sampling and what it's for
Use the Sample Pane
Sampling: defining measures for
Define a statistic for a Sample
Sampling: random number of cases
How can I sample a randomly determined number of cases?
Saving simulation results
Can all separate rerandomizations be saved separately?
Scaling axes
Adjust Bounds of Axes
Adjusting axes--the video
Scatter Plots
Add a Line to a Scatter plot
An example of a scatter plot
Make a residual plot
Make a Scatter plot
Plot a Function on a Scatter Plot
Show groups within a scatterplot
Use third continuous attribute in a scatter plot
Scramble pane
Use the Scramble Pane
Scrambled collections
Define a statistic for a Scrambled Collection
Make a Scrambled Collection
Use the Scramble Pane
Scrambled collections: defining measures for
Define a statistic for a Scrambled Collection
Scrambling
Scrambling and what it's for
Screen real estate
Delete an object (table, graph, etc.)
Hide an object (table, graph, etc.)
Overlap objects (especially graphs and tables)
Shelf
The definition of the shelf
Sliders
Make a Slider
Slopes
Estimating slope and intercept
Slopes: estimating
Estimating slope and intercept
Sort command
Sort cases in a Case Table
Sorting
How do I unsort my case table?
Sort cases in a Case Table
Sounds
Edit Menu
Special values
Special Values in Summary Table Functions
Special Values in the Formula Editor
Special values: for summary tables
Special Values in Summary Table Functions
Special values: in formula editor
Special Values in the Formula Editor
Speed tips
Dragging data is slow in large files; can I speed things up?
Split Box Plots
An example of a split box plot
Split Dot Plots
An example of a split dot plot
Split Histograms
An example of a split histogram
Can I get a "split" histogram that compares the distribution of two different attributes?
Split Normal Quantile Plots
An example of a split normal quantile plot
Split Ntigrams
An example of a split ntigram
Split Percentile Plots
An example of a split percentile plot
Split with numeric attribute
Can I use a numeric attribute to split a plot?
Stack pane
Use the Stack Pane
Stacking
Can I get a "split" histogram that compares the distribution of two different attributes?
How do I stack attributes?
Make a Stacked Collection
Stacking and what it's for
Use the Stack Pane
Standard deviation
Standard Deviation versus Standard Error
Standard deviation: versus standard error
Standard Deviation versus Standard Error
Statistical functions
Statistical functions
Statistics
Background Information in Statistics
Statistics: density axes
Background on Density Axes
Statistics: measures of center
Background on Measures of Center
Statistics: measures of spread
Background on Measures of Spread
Statistics: median-median lines
The Median-Median line
Statistics: standard output
How can I get standard statistical out?
Status bar
The definition of a status bar
String functions
How do I get rid of units in values so they are treated as numbers?
String functions
stringToNumber
How do I get rid of units in values so they are treated as numbers?
Student's t distribution
Student's t Distribution
Summary menu
Summary Menu
Summary tables
Collecting Measures from Summary Tables
Make a Summary Table
Special Values in Summary Table Functions
Summary Table Example
Summary tables: collecting measures from
After collecting measures from a summary table, how do I control when the measures?
Summary tables: functions for
Special Values in Summary Table Functions
Summary tables: Summary menu commands
Summary Menu
t-statistic
Test Correlation
Test Slope
t distribution
Student's t Distribution
Tables
Make a new case table
Tables: making new case tables
Make a new case table
Tables: sorting cases in
Sort cases in a Case Table
Tables: summary tables
Make a Summary Table
Test menu
Test Menu
Tests
Do a hypothesis test
Tests: for correlation
Test Correlation
Tests: for slope
Test Slope
Tests: hypothesis
Do a hypothesis test
Tests; Types of hypothesis tests
Text
Make a Text Object
Text files
Import Data from Text
Text files: importing
Import Data from Text
Transposing rows and columns
How can I reverse rows and columns?
Trigonometric functions
Trigonometric functions
Types of graphs
Types of Graphs
Undo
Edit Menu
Undo: in formula editor
Can I copy and paste within the formula editor?
Uniform distribution
Uniform Distribution
Uniform Lattice distribution
Uniform Lattice Distribution
uniqueRank
How can I compute the mode
Units
How do I get rid of units in values so they are treated as numbers?
Values plotted on graphs
Add a Line to a Scatter plot
Variance
Statistical functions
Variance: pooled vs unpooled
Estimate Difference of Means
Verbose
How can I get standard statistical out?
Vertical lines in plots
How do I plot a vertical line on a scatter plot?
Windows
Window Menu
Windows: for separate objects
View an object in a separate window
Windows: Window menu
Window Menu
Zoom
Zoom in to a graph