How to Get Started

Welcome to Fathom Dynamic Statistics(tm) software. This help system documents how to get things done with Fathom and provides background and reference materials. See also the printed Fathom Reference Manual and its Acrobat counterpart on the Fathom CD.

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I need to start Fathom

... on a Windows computer.

... on a Macintosh computer.

Fathom is already running

First, we need to know if you are going to type in your own data from scratch or if you'll read in data from somewhere else.  

I want to ...

Read in my data from elsewhere.

Type in my data from scratch.

Paste my data in from the clipboard.

Get data from the Internet.