
SigmaPlot® 12.0
Copyright © 2010 Systat Software, Inc.
All Rights Reserved
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System Requirements
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Hardware 
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Windows 7 or Windows Vista: 1 GHz 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor, 1 GB of system memory, 100 MB of available hard disk space.

Windows XP: 500 megahertz (MHz) processor, 256 MB of system memory, 100 MB of available hard disk space

All Operating Systems: CD-ROM drive, 800x600 SVGA/256 color display or better.

Software 
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Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7; Internet Explorer 6 or higher; Office 2003 or higher (paste to PowerPoint Slide, Insert Graphs into Word and other macros).


Known issues
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Pasting graphs into Excel
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If you paste a SigmaPlot graph into Excel and want to edit the graph, right-click on the graph and select “Edit” from the SPW 12.0 Graph Object submenu. 
Do not double-click to edit the graph since this will cause both Excel and SigmaPlot programs to stop responding.



New Features and Improvements in SigmaPlot 12
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Microsoft Office Style Ribbons
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-Context sensitive feature grouping for enhanced functionality and ease of use.
-Expanded tooltips that include hot keys.
-High resolution button icons.
-Alt Key Tips provide visual display of keyboard shortcuts.

New Property Browser
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-New graph object and property browser.  Object selection in the graph is displayed in the object window and the object’s properties 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
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-New tabbed window views enables quick window management (selection, closing, 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.
-Customizable Quick Access Toolbar for frequently used user-specific controls.
-Improved Graph Page Navigation
-Zoom, pan, +/- controls and zoom dialog & slider always available on status bar.
-Drag graph with "hand" mouse cursor.
-Quick window scrolling with middle mouse wheel. 

Worksheet Improvements
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-Mini tool bar for worksheet cell editing.
-Zoom enabled worksheet.
-Quick Transforms list in Property Browser Object Window.
-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.
-Report Improvements
-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
-Explicit icon in Graph Output ribbon for frequently used PDF export which is enhanced by a new version of the report engine.
-Drag and Drop Word 2007 and Word 2010 content directly to the report page.

New Curve Fitting Features
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-Weight variables may now be specified quite generally as functions of the parameters.  Therefore these weights will change at each iteration.   As special cases this includes weighting by predicted values, weighting as a function of residuals (for robust regression) and weighting as any function of the parameters.
-Parameter covariance matrix and parameter confidence intervals added to nonlinear regression reports.
-Implicit function curve fitting gives the ability to compute predicted values that are defined implicitly by the fit model.

New Statistics Features
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-Non-parametric one sample t-test.
-Deming regression allows for errors in both x and y variables – a technique for method comparison.
-Normal distribution comparison with graph and statistics for preliminary quality control analysis.
-Parallel line analysis to determine if linear regression slopes and intercepts are different.
-Bland-Altman graph and statistics for method comparison.
-Improvements in post-hoc testing for multi-factor ANOVAs including P-values for Dunnett’s test and more accurate statistics for multiple comparisons in 3-Way ANOVA.
-New Analysis and Transform Language Features
-Enzyme kinetics analysis module included.
-Worksheet row and column titles may now be set from the Transform language statements.      
-New Root() and Implicit() functions for solving equations.

New Graphing Features
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-GDI+ support to provide enhanced graphics features.
-Color gradients available for almost all objects including area fills and lines.
-Anti-aliasing eliminates jagged lines.
-Area object and line transparency
-Radar graph with sub-types: scatter, line, vector, area, line & error band
-Dot histogram graph
-ScaleGraph macro that allows scrolling through time-series data.

Application Support Features
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-Automatic transfer of Version 12 user options during software upgrade.

Macro Support Features
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-Graph page measurement units specification. 
-Automatic legend state specification.


Accessibility
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Window 7
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Open the command window (cmd.exe), navigate to the CD directory "SigmaPlot". Type setup.exe and hit the return key.

Windows XP
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To install SigmaPlot without using the initial autoplay menus, from the Windows Start menu, select Run and type:

d:\SigmaPlot\Setup.exe

(where d: is the CD drive letter)



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