What are Fathom's objects?

The main parts of your Fathom document are called Objects You make them by selecting them in the Insert menu, or by dragging them off the shelf. Here are the objects Fathom supports:

 

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Collection

The collection is where your data really live.

Case Table

A case table is a familiar, "spreadsheet" view of the data in rows and columns.

Graph

There are many kinds of graphs. What kind you can get depends on what attributes you put on its axes.

When a graph is active, there is a Graph menu.

Summary Table

Summary tables display numerical summaries such as counts, means, and medians, but also any quantity you can compute.

Slider

A slider is a visual device for controlling numbers.

Sample Collection

A sample collection will sample cases from a collection.

Scrambled Collection

A scrambled collection will scramble one attribute in a collection, in order to assess independence.

Measures Collection

A measures collection takes the measures in a collection and makes a case out of them.

Stacked Collection

A stacked collection reconfigures a the attributes in its source collection, so that the attribute names become values.

Parameter estimate

A parameter estimate uses statistical methods to estimate something about a population based on a random sample.

Hypothesis test

A hypothesis test uses statistical inference to determine the probability that some would occur under certain conditions.

Text objects

A place for text, often comments about the document or instructions on what to do.

Picture objects

An object containing a picture, typically copied from another application.