SigmaPlot

for Graphing and Data Visualization

Designed Specifically to Meet the Needs of Scientists, Professional Researchers and Engineers

With an award-winning interface and intuitive wizard technology that guides users step-by-step through the graph creation and data analysis process, SigmaPlot provides the flexibility to create compelling graphs and statistical analysis you simply can’t achieve with basic spreadsheet software

SigmaPlot Helps You Quickly Create Exact Graphs

With the new Graph Properties user interface you can select the property category in the tree on the left and then change properties on the right The change is immediately graphed and if you move your cursor off the panel then it becomes transparent and you can see the effect of your changes without leaving the panel

The “select left and change right” procedure makes editing your graphs quick and easy SigmaPlot takes you beyond simple spreadsheets to help you show off your work clearly and precisely With SigmaPlot, you can produce high-quality graphs without spending hours in front of a computer SigmaPlot offers seamless Microsoft Office® integration, so you can easily access data from Microsoft Excel® spreadsheets and present your results in Microsoft PowerPoint® presentations

The user interface also includes Microsoft Office style ribbon controls And the tabbed window interface efficiently organizes your worksheets and graphs for easy selection And these tabs may be organized into either vertical or horizontal tab groups Graph Gallery and Notebook Manger panes may be moved to any position and easily placed using docking panel guides You can add frequently used objects to the Quick Access Toolbar For example you might want to add Notebook Save, Close All, Refresh Graph Page and Modify Plot *SigmaPlot takes you beyond simple spreadsheets to help you show off your work clearly and precisely. With SigmaPlot, you can produce high-quality graphs without spending hours in front of a computer.  .

More than 100 2-D and 3-D technical graph types

From simple 2-D scatter plots to compelling contour and the new radar and dot density plots, SigmaPlot gives you the exact technical graph type you need for your demanding research And, to help you see interactions in your 3-D data, SigmaPlot powerfully renders multiple intersecting 3-D meshes with hidden line removal With so many different chart and graph types to choose from, you can always find the best visual representation of your data

Use Global Curve Fitting to simultaneously analyze multiple data

Global curve fitting is used when you want to fit an equation to several data sets simultaneously The selected equation must have exactly one independent variable The data sets can be selected from a worksheet or a graph using a variety of data formats You can also specify the behavior of each equation parameter with respect to the data sets A parameter can be localized to have a separate value for each data set, or a parameter can be shared to have the same value for all data sets

The Global Curve Fit Wizard is very similar to the Regression and Dynamic Fit Wizards in design and operation The main difference is the extra panel shown below for specifying the shared parameters

Obtain Data from Nearly Any Source

SigmaPlot has import file formats for all common text files This includes a general purpose ASCII file importer which allows importing comma delimited files and user-selected delimiters Plus all Excel formats may be imported SPSS, Minitab, SYSTAT and SAS input data formats are supported by SigmaPlot

Axon binary and text electrophysiology files may be imported Also the Electrophysiology module, purchased separately, allows importing specific parts of electrophysiology files from Axon Instruments ABF files, Bruxton Corporation’s Acquire format and HEKA electronik’s Pulse format Import any ODBC compliant database Excel and Access database files are supported Run SQL queries on tables and selectively import information

Choose from a wide range of graph types to best present your results

SigmaPlot provides more than 100 different 2-D and 3-D graph types From simple 2-D scatter plots to compelling contour, Forest and radar plots, SigmaPlot gives you the exact technical graph type you need for your demanding research With so many options, you can always find the best visual representation of your data

Statistical Analysis is no longer a daunting task

SigmaPlot now offers almost 50 of the most frequently used statistical tests in scientific research by integrating SigmaStat into one application Suggestion of the most appropriate statistical tests is offered by a software-based Advisor Raw and indexed data formats are accepted to avoid data reformatting

Violation of data assumptions is checked in the background and, if true, the correct test to use is recommended Reports with descriptive interpretations are generated and graphs specific to each test may be created

SigmaPlot now employs an all new user interface allowing users to easily setup a global curve fit This gives users the ability to easily share one or more equation parameters across multiple data sets

Non-linear curve fitting is known to produce incorrect results in some instances The problem is that you don´t necessarily know that this has happened Dynamic Curve Fitting is designed to determine if this has happened and if so what the likely best fit is

Share High-Quality Graphs and Data on the Web

Export your graphs as high-resolution, dynamic Web pages – not simple GIF or JPEG files Viewers can explore data used to create graphs and zoom, pan or print images at full resolution directly from a Web Browser Automatically generate active Web objects from your graphs or embed the objects within other Web pages

• Simply select the Web graph to share its data with colleagues and students
• Share the data behind your graphs with colleagues and students
• Enable colleagues to print your full report from your intranet or Web site directly from their browsers – without compromising the quality of the graphs
• Create an optional password while exporting your graph to limit data access to authorized users
• Produce Web documents without knowing HTML or embed SigmaPlot Web object graphs within HTML files to create interactive electronic reports Each worksheet can hold a list of user defined transforms that will automatically be re-run whenever the transform input data has changed

Let’s say you would like to start by selecting a particular kind of graph but you don’t know how to set up the worksheet to achieve it SigmaPlot lets the user select a graph first and then gives you a pre-formatted worksheet to structure their data The data entered into the worksheet is immediately displayed on the graph This feature can demonstrate to you the strong relationship between the data format and the graph type

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