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Description
Statistica has 2 methods of performing analyses.
1. Workspace mode- Where a new workspace is created and sequenced with nodes,each of which perform an operation.
2. Interactively with Statistica - where a user would open data set and perform analyses on an ad-hoc basis.
In general, the interactive mode can be useful to explore the data set in order to be able to design a workspace. This article applies to all analyses performed in Statistica interactively and with an example will demonstrate how an analysis can be resumed.
Resolution
1. Launch Statistica and from the Home tab, click on Open>>Open Examples>>Datasets>>Characteristics.sta.
2. Click on Statistics tab and click on "Basic Statistics". Click on Descriptive Statistics.Click OK
3. Click Variables and select variables 7-12. Click OK.
4. Click on Summary. This brings a workbook with the descriptive statistics of all the chosen variables in a spreadsheet.
5. To resume the analysis and see different representations of the results - such as a histogram or Box-whisker plots, a user may want to resume the same analysis. Click on the minimized analysis in the bottom as shown below and continue to choose the different analysis options:
Alternatively, a user may use keyboard shortcut Ctrl+R to resume the current analysis. The illustrated method of resuming an analysis will apply for all analyses within Statistica in the interactive mode.
Issue/Introduction
How to resume an analysis in Statistica in the interactive mode?