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SigmaPlot 10.0 New Features
 NEW GENERAL FEATURES
- The New Startup Screen lets both new and power users quickly jump into their workflow with easy access to recently used documents, use existing documents as templates for new work, or fast import of Excel and
Access documents.
- The Submission Assistant will save users time from having to research publication graph requirements, and prevent editor bounce-back.
- More efficient integration with SAS and Minitab preventing duplicate copies of user data.
- Get real-time feedback of the graph coordinates with your mouse cursor on a graph.
- Laboratories can easily track and log changes to notebooks from multiple users, simplifying security and 21 CFR Part 11 compliance.
- Other features include importing popular graphic files directly on to the SigmaPlot graph page, a new Installer and Network License Manager, and improved Graph Defaults.
NEW GRAPHING FEATURES
- Visually differentiate groups within your data and achieve the desired graphical aesthetic with more Line Types and Fill Patterns.
- New 3D Mesh Plots with Contour Projections enhance the visualization of three dimensional data coordinate values.
- SigmaPlot 10 automatically interpolates and graphs irregularly spaced three-dimensional data to quickly generate smooth and highly accurate mesh and contour plots from any 3D data sets.
- Polar Plot angular direction support allows users customize the angular direction that best fits the conventions for their data.
- New axis scales for two and three-dimensional graphs including Weibull axis scale, Reciprocal axis scales, and Arrhenius scales.
- Easier manipulation of the graph elements even with object is buried under other items.
- Quickly customize the size and position of multiple graphs and graph page objects.
NEW DATA ANALYSIS FEATURES
- You can be confident that the best curve fit was found when using SigmaPlot's New Dynamic Fit Wizard
- It is now easy to add confidence and prediction bands to nonlinear regressions.
- Optional Chi-Square Regression Weighting gives the flexibility to do curve fitting according to the statistical conventions of the user's research area.
- Perform computations, run macros, and perform curve fitting with the twelve new probability functions.
- Transforms can now be stored in SigmaPlot notebooks to tie them to a particular worksheet, password and audit log protect the transform, or build a custom transform library.
The NEW Startup Screen lets both new and power users quickly jump into their workflow with easy access to recently used documents, use
existing documents as templates for new work, or fast import of Excel and Access documents.
 Power users will enjoy easy access to
previously used documents and it is easier to use old documents as templates for new work.- New users will benefit from the easy access to help and other tutorials while being guided through creating a blank worksheet, importing data from an Excel file or other database files.
- The Startup Screen is optionally shown at program startup. The option to show the dialog can be set in the program's general options.
The Submission Assistant will save users time from having to research publication graph requirements, and prevent editor bounce-back.
 The Submission Assistant stores an
extensible list of publication requirements that is used to double check whether exported figures meet the publication standards.- After preparing a graph for publication, the Submission Assistant can be used to export the graph file that will accompany the publication.
- Users can select one of the predefined submission profiles or create their own output profiles to enforce department standards.
- The graph will be checked to ensure that the output file will meet the submission requirements for the chosen profile.
More efficient integration with SAS and Minitab preventing duplicate copies of user data.
 SigmaPlot 10 can directly import SAS
data sets and export files (.sd2 & .sas7bdat files).- SigmaPlot 10 can directly import Minitab data files (.mtw & .mpj files).
- The user can import SAS or Minitab data files through the import file dialog.
Get real-time feedback of the graph coordinates with your mouse cursor on a graph.
 Get live feedback of the graph coordinates
with your mouse cursor with your mouse cursor on a graph.- Selecting a plot will allow you to see its corresponding data points.
With new Audit Trails, laboratories can easily track changes to notebooks from multiple users, simplifying security and 21 CFR Part 11 compliance by logging changes.
 Audit Trails for a notebook can be turned
on in the protections settings for the notebook. The auditing of a notebook is protected by an auditing password. - By entering the auditing dialog, an audit report containing all users, dates, and actions that have changed the notebook can be viewed.
- The capability to keep a log of changes to a notebook has been added in SigmaPlot 10 include keeping track of a user's login user-name, date, and action.
Users can now import popular image formats such as bmp, jpg, gif, tiff, etc… directly into SigmaPlot 10 graph page.
 Graphic files can be imported when
artwork needs to be added to a graph page - Prior to SigmaPlot 10, artwork could be cut and pasted from other applications, but not imported directly from the graphic file.
The installer supports silent installation, allowing network administrators to incorporate SigmaPlot into their automated installation systems.
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 nformation Technology administrators will find the new SigmaPlot 10
installer easy to use for program installation.
- SigmaPlot's rebuilt installer simplifies network installations and supports silent SMS based remote installations
- Prior to SigmaPlot 10, a SigmaPlot installer would have to be manually run on each computer in which SigmaPlot was to be installed.
With the all-new Network License Manager, licenses are under the network administrator's control with much shorter license codes, and installation that doesn't require the client's IP address.
 The all-new Network License Manager
uses the Sentinel software license manager to control network SigmaPlot license. - Prior to SigmaPlot 10, SigmaPlot ran as an application server, which left licensing control to the end user's computer.
Visually differentiate groups within your data and achieve the desired graphical aesthetic with more Line Types and Fill Patterns.
 Seven (7) new line styles and 25 Fill Patterns have been introduced in SigmaPlot 10.- The new line styles are: Short-Long-Short, Long-Short-Short, Long-Short, Short-Long, Short-Short, Short-Short-Short, and Medium-Medium.
 The new fill patterns are: Plaid, Balls, Diamonds, Checkers, Dashes, Large Confetti, Confetti, Herringbone, Scales, Zig zag, Cyclone, Diagonal bricks, Bricks,
Arrows, 90%, 80%, 75%, 70%, 60%, 50%, 40%, 30%, 25%, 20%, and 10%. - The new line styles and fill patterns are accessible in the graph properties dialog, the page toolbar, the options dialog, and the object properties dialog.
New 3D Mesh Plots with Contour Projections enhance the visualization of three dimensional data coordinate values.
 A new option for the 3D mesh plot enables the user to project a contour plot of the same data in either the top or bottom coordinate backplane.- Options to project contour plots include the near or far backplane. The contour plot projection appears as an addition plot that can be modified through the usual methods.
SigmaPlot 10 automatically interpolates and graphs irregularly spaced three-dimensional data to quickly generate smooth and highly accurate mesh and contour plots from any 3D data sets.
 No need to manually smooth, interpolate, or otherwise resample data before graphing.
Polar Plot angular direction support allows users customize the angular direction that best fits the conventions for their data.
 Users can easily select clockwise or counter-clockwise angular direction for polar plots - When producing a polar plot, the angular direction can be chosen initially in the create graph wizard, or at any time later in the graph properties.
New axis scales for two and three-dimensional graphs including Weibull axis scale, Reciprocal axis scales, and Arrhenius scales.
 When used in conjunction with a natural log scale, a Weibull scale can be used to graphically linearize functions of the form  - which is the Weibull cumulative distribution.
- This capability to graphically linearize Weibull cumulative distributions is one of the most widely used lifetime distributions in reliability engineering.
 The reciprocal scale is a new option for axis scaling. The reciprocal scale has the form
- The capability to graphically scale data dependant on the inverse of a variable. Temperature dependant data often has inverse temperature dependence as in the Arrhenius chemical reaction rate equation.
Easier manipulation of the graph elements - even with objects buried under other items.
 More Selectable Graph Objects: select major and minor grid lines, error bars, break marks, and drop lines.- Even items buried under other items can now be selected.
- Holding the Alt key while selecting an object with the mouse or arrow keys allows objects buried beneath other objects to be selected.
Quickly customize the size and position of multiple graphs and graph page objects with Improved Object Properties.
 Quicker and easier manipulation of the sizes and positions of multiple graph elements via toolbars with automatic resizing and positioning of graphs and objects.- Any number of objects can be selected on a graph page and modified at once with the object properties dialog.
- The positions or sizes of all objects will be modified in one step.
You can be confident that the best curve fit was found when using SigmaPlot's New Dynamic Fit Wizard.
 Unsure of your initial parameter estimates for a curve fit, or not sure of whether your fit is the best it could be?- The Dynamic Fit Wizard compliments the Regression Wizard by providing hundreds of initial parameter estimates to minimize the squared residual errors, produce individual curve fits for each, and chose
the best in a matter of seconds.
- The Dynamic Fit Wizard is similar to the Regression Wizard, in that it walks the user through a number of options to set up a regression. When a particular data set is difficult to fit, the Dynamic Fit Wizard
gives the user the added capability to generate a batch of initial parameter estimates for the fitting procedure. A batch of initial fitting parameters will be generated automatically or, they can be specified.
- Avoid writing macros or repetitively trying initial parameters.
Determine which clinical test is best with SigmaPlot's new ROC Curve Analysis Module.
 Create single or multiple ROC curves and their data dot density graphs.- Compare ROC areas for significant difference when the data is correlated or not.
- Handle missing values in all situations. Use either pairwise or casewise deletion of missing values when comparing ROC areas.
- Compute likelihood ratios, post-test probabilities and the optimal cutoff using pre-test probability and cost-ratio.
- Allow laboratory scientists to determine which clinical test is the best.
- Significantly beat our competition with a nearly complete implementation of ROC curve analysis.
It is now easy to add confidence and prediction bands to nonlinear regressions.
 Now, 95% confidence and prediction bands can be easily added to a graph after a nonlinear regression.- The confidence and prediction bands are also evaluated and stored in a worksheet for further graphing or analysis.
Optional Chi-Square Regression Weighting gives the flexibility to do curve fitting according to the conventions and statistical needs, of the data, and research area of the user.
 SigmaPlot gives users a choice whether or not to use reduced chi-square to compute parameter standard errors in weighted regression.- In the Regression Wizard and the Dynamic Fit Wizard, there is an added option to use reduced chi-square computations with a weighted regression.
SigmaPlot provides 2, 3, 4, and 5-segment piecewise-linear models with automatic parameter estimation.
 Piecewise linear regression equations have been added to SigmaPlot's regression library. These are used to fit from two to five straight lines that are connected at join-points.
- Both the characteristics of the straight lines and the location of the join-points are parameters that are fitted to data. Each regression equation contains functions for automatically determining
the initial starting parameter values.
- Since fitting these equations frequently results in multiple local minima the Dynamic Fit feature in SigmaPlot should always be used.
- Previously, we only provided a 2-segment piecewise-linear model on the web.
Perform computations, run macros, and perform curve fitting with the twelve new probability functions.
 The 12 new probability functions include: The probability density, cumulative probability distribution, and inverse cumulative probability distribution functions
for the normal, chi-squared, Student's t, and F distributions have been added to the transform language.- These twelve new functions can be used in curve fitting, macros, and worksheet data transformations.
- The user will not have to attempt to define these models as a user defined function.
Transforms can now be stored in SigmaPlot notebooks to tie them to a particular worksheet, password and audit log protect the transform, or build a custom transform library.
 When the user wants to store a data transform for later use or reference, a new transform item should be added to the SigmaPlot worksheet. - The transform can then be edited and run from the notebook item.
- In prior versions of SigmaPlot, transforms could be embedded in macros (which could be stored in notebooks) or saved as text based .xfm files.
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