How to suppress the number of significant digits on tables output by statistica?

How to suppress the number of significant digits on tables output by statistica?

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Article ID: KB0074147

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Products Versions
Spotfire Statistica 13.0 and higher

Description

This KB article talks about the workarounds to manually change the number of displayed decimal places/digits in a Statistica analyses output table or spreadsheet.

Issue/Introduction

How to suppress the number of significant digits on tables output by statistica?

Environment

Windows

Resolution

RESOLUTION 1:

1. Double click the variable column in the spreadsheet to access the variable specification dialog.

2. Select "Number" as the Display format and set your desired number in the Decimal places.

3. Click "OK"
 

RESOLUTION 2:

On Statistica version 13.1 and higher, there is "Variable Format/Rename" node to edit variables' number of decimal places/digits in a workspace fashion.

1. After the input data is inserted into the workspace, search "Variable Format/Rename" in the Feature Finder box located on top right.

2.Insert the "Variable Format/Rename" node into the workspace .

3. Click "Edit Parameters" (the wheel icon on top left) of the "Variable Format/Rename" node to open the configuration dialog. 

4. Click "Edit Variable Specifications" to access the variable specification dialog.

5. Select "Number" as the Display format and set the number of Decimal places. (Note: you can click the double left/right arrows to move to the previous or next variable.)

6. After editing all desired variables, click "OK" and the run the node in the workspace to generate the reformatted spreadsheet.