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.