Designed Specifically to Meet the Needs of Scientists, Professional Researchers and Engineers
SigmaPlot 14.5
Designed Specifically to Meet the Needs of Scientists, Professional Researchers and Engineers
Import
Import multiple sheets from Excel files.
Statistical Analysis
Expanded model selection criteria for polynomial regression, new assumption checking criteria and table formatting for correlation tests, numerical and graph results added to contingency tables
Macros
Enhancements to polar plots from the Polar and Parametric Equations macro. The
Histogram Plus Kernel Density macro added to Toolbox
Help
Improved search in Help system.
Transforms
New functions in the Transform Language for matrix computations. Transform Samples file update with new transforms for orthogonal regression, regression with equality constraints, Passing-Bablok regression, and chi-square goodness-of-fit test for category data.
System Memory
Status bar shows remaining memory
Add Value Symbols
Value symbols can now be easily added to symbol and bar graphs
Subsections In Notebooks
Notebooks expanded to include one or more subsections under each section to better organize content.
Histograms
Scaling options for counts and options for either left-edge or right-edge binning are available for histograms from the Histogram Wizard and from statistical procedures.
Smoothers
Reports available for 2D and 3D Smoothers to save settings for future reference.
User Interface Improvements
Plots can be deleted from Graph Properties, the Add Axis default has been changed to the Y Axis, Align Objects is now available from the right mouse menu, and mini-toolbars have been improved when drawing arrows
Statistical Graphs
New statistical graphs in the Create Graph Wizard to visually compare datasets. These include Quantile-Quantile plots, Confidence and Prediction Ellipses, and Jitter plots.
New Statistical Analysis Features & Graphs
- Additional numerical and graph results for contingency tables
- Assumption checking and table formatting added to correlation tests
- Expanded model selection criteria in Polynomial Regression
- Easier access for setting population mean and median for one-sample
- Quantile-Quantile Plot, Confidence and Prediction ellipses, and Jitter plots
User Interface Enhancements
- Easily add value symbols to symbol and bar graphs with a new dialog available from the ribbon
- Mini toolbar positions have been moved to make editing objects easier
- Plots can be deleted directly from the Plot panel in Graph Properties
- Changed the Add Axis default to be Y Axis.
- Align objects now available from the right mouse menu
- Greater access from a statistics report or a result graph to the statistics interface on the ribbon
Transform Language Enhancements
•New transform language functions for matrix computations including eigenvalues/ eigenvectors of real symmetric matrices, and solutions of systems of linear equations and regression problems.
•Restructured transform library for easier navigation
•New transforms added to transform library:
•Multilinear Orthogonal Regression and Regression with Equality Constraints
•Passing-Bablok Regression
•Chi-Square goodness of fit test for category data
•Improvements in the random number generators when using a random seed
•Statistical procedures may now use data from over 4000 worksheet columns
New Miscellaneous Features
- Import multiple sheets from Excel files
- A notebook section can now contain one or more subsections
- The Histogram Plus Kernel Density macro has been added to the toolbox
- A system memory indicator on the status bar showing the amount of remaining memory
Improved search in Help
GRAPHING FEATURES
2D
- Scatter (14 Types) Line (4 Types), Scatter and Line (10 Types)
- Step (8 Types)
- Vertical and Horizontal Bar (4 Types), Grouped Bar (4 Types)
- Vertical and Horizontal Stacked Bar
- Contour, line and filled (2 Types)
- Bubble, Pie, Control Charts, Needle, High-low-close, Range
Quartile, Quadrant, Population
3D
Multiple, intersecting plots with hidden line removal, smooth or dis- crete shading, transparent or opaque fills, and light source shading 3D rotation, Perspective preview, Scatter, Bar, 3D line - trajectory, Mesh - with or without contour projections Contour, Waterfall
Create Graphs Easily
- Graph Style Gallery: Save any graph with all graph properties and add a bitmap image to the gallery to recreate complex graphs
- Graph Ribbons: select ribbon icon of the graph type and style you want to create a graph or to add additional curves to an existing
- Graph Wizard: easy to use, step-by-step wizard for sing you select a graph type and pick data
- Default graph settings: set preferences for graph options to create favorite graphs more easily
Templates: create custom graph page templates to store for easy accessibility and future use
Technical Axis
Reciprocal (including Arrhenius), Weibull, Linear, Log10, Natural log, Probit, Logit, Probability, Ternary percentage, unary Polar (both clockwise and counter clockwise) Category (text data automatically binned into groups) Time and date, User-defined custom axis to create almost any scale
Axis Features
- Control of display, thickness, color, range, and axis offset
- Multiple axes: Add Axis Wizard for creating multiple axes easily
- Ticks: customize major & minor intervals, in & out orientation, top & bottom location, length, thickness, color and tick mark selection from column to create custom axes
- Tick labels: customize prefix, suffix, numeric, and time & date
Axis breaks: customize symbol, thickness, color, length, gap width, and post break interval
Symbol Line and Fill Types
- More line types for line plots and line scatter plots, free-form lines, boxes and ellipses
50 fill patterns for bar charts, box plots, pie charts, area plots and free-form boxes and ellipses
Error Bars
- Mean, Median, First and last values for symbols
- Standard deviation, Standard error, Min and Max,
First and Last entry
- 10th, 25th, 75th and 90% or 99% confidence
- Calculate error bars from replicate values across rows
- User-defined upper and lower error bar values
- One-way, two-way and asymmetric error bars
Percentile method: 2 types
Multi-line Text Editor
Control font, size, style, color, Greek, multiple levels of superscript and subscript, 360 degree rotation, left, right & center justification, and line spacing
Function Plotter
- Automatic or manually created; lines and symbols on or off
- Plot functions on new or existing graphs
- Plot multiple different parameter values simultaneously
Equation Solver: solve equations or functions containing a single independent variable and any number of parameters
Function Plotter
- Automatic or manually created; lines and symbols on or off
- Plot functions on new or existing graphs
- Plot multiple different parameter values simultaneously
Equation Solver: solve equations or functions containing a single independent variable and any number of parameters
USER INTERFACE FEATURES
- New ribbon layouts for efficient use
- Rearrange Notebook items by dragging
- New SigmaPlot tutorial PDF file
- Line widths from a worksheet column
- New SVG, SWF and vector PDF graphics export file formats
File import and export support is added for V13/V14 of Minitab, V9 of SAS, and V19 of SPSS
Microsoft Office Style Ribbons
- Context sensitive feature grouping for enhanced functionality and ease of use.
- Expanded tooltips that include hot keys.
Alt Key Tips provide visual display of keyboard shortcuts
Graph Property Redesign
- New graph object and property browser. Object selection in the graph is displayed in the object window and the object’s proper-ties displayed in the property window.
- Dynamic Update provides immediate graph redraw with property change. No Ok or apply button press required
- Property group styles may be copied and applied across like groups thus simplifying property specification
New window show/hide buttons for window real-estate management
User Interface Improvements
- New tabbed window views enable quick window management (selection, closing, and grouping)
- New docking panel guides providing simple window placement. This includes the Graph Gallery, Templates, Layouts, Object and Properties windows.
- Group open windows into tabbed groups either vertically or horizontally. This collects like windows for easy comparison and better window management.
- Object-specific mini toolbars are displayed adjacent to selected graph, worksheet and report objects. This allows rapid editing of object properties. Left mouse selection may be turned off.
Customizable Quick Access Toolbar for frequently used user specific commands
Grids and Fills
- Control of color, line type, thickness, and display of major & minor grids in X, Y, & Z direction
Control of pattern and edge color, pattern style, pattern density and edge thickness Symbols
Reference Lines
- Control mean, standard deviation, standard error, user- defined constants, and 95% and 99% confidence intervals
- Up to 5 horizontal or vertical lines
Control of color, line type, and thickness
Drop Lines
Display in any or all X, Y and Z directions
Antialiasing for Smooth Lines
Button in Format Group, Graph Page tab
Legends
- Horizontal, vertical and rectangular legend shapes
- Simple direct labels that move with the graph
- Automatic or manually created; lines and symbols on or off
- Legends for regressions, confidence, and prediction intervals
Place line and symbol before or after text
DATA ANALYSIS FEATURES
Enzyme Kinetics Module
- Analyze multiple models and rank by best fit
- Create multiple enzyme kinetics graphs: Michaelis- Menten,Lineweaver-Burk, Eadie-Hofstee,
Scatchard, Hanes- Woolf, Hill,and Dixon
Regression Wizard
- 24 probability function models
- 7 built-in weighting functions for each model
- Akaike information criterion computation
- Linear and nonlinear regressions
- 2, 3, 4, and 5-segment piecewise-linear models
- Over 150 built-in, graphically-illustrated equations
- Marquardt-Levenberg algorithm with up to 50 independent variables and 500 parameters. Resizable equation edit dialog which can be saved.
- Define tolerance, step size and iterations
- Define linear constraints and fix parameters to a constant value
- Automatically determines your initial parameters
- Writes a complete statistical report to your SigmaPlot Notebook
- Automatically graphs your results on new or existing graphs
- Option to add 95 or 99% confidence and prediction bands to a results graph
- Optional Reduced Chi-Square Regression weighting
- Customize the SigmaPlot fit library or create your own fit functions
- Generalized weight variables: predicted values, robust regression
- Parameter covariance matrix and confidence intervals in report
Predicted values defined implicitly by the fit model
Dynamic Fit Wizard
- Solves difficult curve fitting problems by finding local and global fit solutions
- Selects many initial maximally-distant starting parameter sets and ranks the resulting fits
Shows the local minima with a Dynamic Fit Profile graph
Global Fit Wizard
Fit multiple data sets using shared parameters
Automatic Plot Regressions
- Up to 10th order with confidence and prediction intervals and regression statistics
Additional Plot Regression statistics
Column Descriptive Statistics Generated Automatically
Choose which statistics to display and in desired order
STATISTICS
- Principal Components Analysis (PCA)
- Analysis of Covariance (ANCOVA)
- Over 50 of the most frequently used statistical tests to analyze sci- entific data. Use data from up to 4000 worksheet columns
- Advisor Wizard guides you through the process of choosing the appropriate statistical test
- Report generation that translates the statistics into plain and simple English
- Descriptive statistics
- Non-parameter tests: t-tests, ANOVA
- Welch’s t-test assuming unequal variances
One-way, two-way, three-way ANOVA
- Regression, including Linear, Stepwise, Best Subsets, Polynomial and Logistic
- Correlation
Survival analysis (Kaplan-Meir, Cox Regression)
Power and Sample Size Analysis
- One sample signed rank test
- Deming regression for errors in both x and y
- Normal distribution comparison for QC analysis
Bland-Altman analysis for method comparison
Results Graphs From Statistics
- Multiple graphs may be generated simultaneously
- Obtained from right click on statistical report or other Results Graph
- Scatter Matrix now with 40 variables
Improved default appearance of Result Graphs
SMOOTHING
2D & 3D Smoothing Routines
- Negative exponential, Running average, Loess,
Running median, Bisquare, Inverse square, Inverse distance (for 3D smoothing)
TRANSFORMS
Quick Transforms
- Perform quick mathematical transforms provided in a function palette
- Automatic Updating of multiple transforms in worksheets
Improved User Interface for the Quick Transforms dialog
Mathematical Transforms
- Set worksheet row and column titles
- Root() and Implicit() functions
- 36 probability density and cumulative transforms
- Fast Fourier transforms with filters
- Data to RGB-color transform
- Trigonometric and algebraic functions
- Random and Gaussian random number generation
- Range, accumulation, precision, and more
- Transforms are now kept in notebook files as JNB files for easier organization of transforms; create transform libraries; associate transforms with data sets
- Protect and track changes to transforms for 21 CFR Part 11
User-defined dialog is resizable and can be saved
GENERAL FEATURES
Unicode
- Text and symbols in different languages may be placed on the graph
- Broad support for Unicode in worksheets, graphs, and reports.
Large, Scientific Worksheets
- Sample files in Help for graphs, statistics, macros, transforms, nonlinear regression
- 32,000 columns by 32,000,000 rows
- Handles numeric, text (categorical), and date & time data
- Multiple key column data sorting
- Insert color, symbols, line styles and bar patterns
- Independent graphically adjustable row height and column widths
- Missing data handling
- Graphical feedback of current curve and datapoint
Text support of up to 256 characters
- Change the font type and grid colors
- Change font for worksheet
- Format empty cells - formatted selected columns even if they do not contain data
- More flexible column titles allow for duplicates and numeric only titles
- Enhanced data/time recognition and more formats
- Arrow-key functionality is similar to that of Microsoft Excel
- Freeze Panes and print preview
- Multi-line editing - text wraps to fit the column while the row height automatically adjusts
- Find and replace data
- Mini tool bar for worksheet cell editing
- Quick worksheet window scrolling with middle mouse wheel
Formatted text in worksheet cells. Text in worksheet can contain super and subscripts, Greek letters, etc. and this can be used in tick labels
Sigmaplot Notebook Manager
- Holds SigmaPlot worksheets, Excel worksheets, reports, regression wizard equations, graph pages, transforms and macros.
Direct-editing of notebook summary information
Sigmaplot Report Editor
- Insert tables with pre-defined styles or customize completely
- Copy/Paste tabular data both ways between the SigmaPlot report and Excel worksheet
- Zoom enabled report
- Vertical and horizontal rulers
- Ability to change the report background color
- Drag and Drop Word 2007/2010/2016 content directly to the report
- Cut and paste or use OLE to combine all the important aspects of your analysis into one document.
- Choose from a wide range of styles, sizes, and colors from any system font.
- Export to most word processors
- Add decimal tabs, tab leader, true date/time fields
Auto-numbering
Page Layout and Annotation Options
- Zoom, pan, +/- controls and zoom dialog & slider always available
- Ctrl-3 zoom toggle between current zoom and 100%
- Drag graph with “hand” mouse cursor
- Quick window scrolling with middle mouse wheel
- Direct graphic file import into graph page
- Real-time mouse-over XY and page coordinate feedback
- Click-through accessibility to select and edit graph objects buried under other items
- OLE 2 container and server
- Automatic or manual legends
- Multiple curves and plots on one graph
- Multiple axes on one graph
- Arrange graphs with built-in templates
- Multiple levels of zooming and custom zooming
- Easily change the size and position of multiple selected objects simultaneously to layout and arrange graphs and other objects quickly
- Scale graph to any size
- Resize graphic elements proportionally with resizing graph
- Alignment and position tools
- Draw lines, ellipses, boxes, arrows with solid arrowheads
- Layering options
- Inset graphs inside one another
- Selection of graph objects
- Right-click property editing
- Paste graphic objects from other programs
Adjustable snap-to grids
“Picking From Column” Option
Enter colors, patterns, symbols, line styles, tick mark intervals, tick labels and more directly into your worksheet to customize your graph the way you want. Transforms and “picking from column” allow you to create data dependent color gradients, symbols and sizes.
Automate Routine and Complete Tasks
Visual Basic compatible programming using built-in
macro language interface
• Macro recorder to save and play-back operations
• Macro recorder to save and play-back operations
• Full automation object support - use Visual Basic to
create your own SigmaPlot - based applications
• Run built-in macros or create and add your own
scripts
• Add menu commands and create dialog
• Export graph to PowerPoint Slide
Insert Graph to Microsoft Word’ Toolbox macro
• New keyboard shortcuts in the Graph Properties and most Microsoft Excel keyboard shortcuts in the
worksheet
• Macro language graph page measurement units
specification
• Macro language automatic legend state specification
Windows Applications
- Excel, Word and PowerPoint for Office 2007, Office 2010, Office 2016 and Windows 7, Windows 10 support
- Tips and Tricks at startup
- OLE 2 container and server
- Use Excel worksheets inside SigmaPlot
- Right mouse button property editing
- Selection of objects on graph page
- Full precision and date/time Microsoft Excel copy and paste
- User settings are preserved from current to next
SigmaPlot version
IMPORT AND EXPORT OPTIONS
Import
- Directly import SAS data sets (.sd2 and .sas7bdat files) Directly import Minitab data sets (.mtw & .mpj files)
- Open Axon Binary, Axon Text, ASCII Plain, Comma and general import filter, 1-2-3 , Symphony , Quattro , Excel, dBASE E, DIF, all
- SigmaPlot files through SigmaPlot 12, SigmaStat files (all versions), SYSTAT, SigmaScan Pro, Sigma
Scan, SigmaScan Image, Mocha
- Import any ODBC compliant database
Run SQLqueries on tables and selectively import information
Export
- SAS files (.sd2 and .sas7bdat files)
- Minitab files (.mtw & .mpj files)
- ASCII Text, Tabbed, Comma, 1-2-3 , Excel, DIF, all SigmaPlot files though SigmaPlot 12, SigmaScan Pro
PDF, PSD and HTMLexport of graphs and reports
Import Graphics Options
- Load popular graphic file formats directly into
SigmaPlot graphic page
Import BMP, JPEG, GIF, TIFF, Cursor and Icon Files & many more
Graph Export Options
- Export an individual graph, a group of graphs and objects or an entire page
- Different levels of resolution and color depths: PDF, EPS, TIFF, JPEG, EMF, BMP, PNG
- True color EPS vector and CMYK EPS export
Compressed CMYK TIFF
Publish As Web Page
- Export graphs as high-resolution Web objects
- WebViewer: free browser plug-in to view data used to create graph or print, pan and zoom in on graph without losing resolution
The WebViewer supports IE 4.01 or higher. A screen resolution JPEG file is automatically displayed for browser applications and operating systems
