<s>
StatView	B-Algorithm
is	O
a	O
statistics	O
application	B-Application
originally	O
released	O
for	O
Apple	B-Device
Macintosh	I-Device
computers	I-Device
in	O
1985	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
StatView	B-Algorithm
was	O
one	O
of	O
the	O
first	O
statistics	O
applications	O
to	O
have	O
a	O
graphical	B-Application
user	I-Application
interface	I-Application
,	O
capitalizing	O
on	O
the	O
Macintosh	B-Device
's	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
A	O
user	O
saw	O
a	O
spreadsheet	B-Application
of	O
his	O
or	O
her	O
data	O
,	O
comprising	O
columns	O
that	O
could	O
be	O
integers	O
,	O
long	O
integers	O
,	O
real	O
numbers	O
,	O
strings	O
,	O
or	O
categories	O
,	O
and	O
rows	O
that	O
were	O
usually	O
cases	O
(	O
such	O
as	O
individual	O
people	O
for	O
psychology	O
data	O
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Category	O
data	O
looked	O
like	O
strings	O
(	O
e.g.	O
,	O
a	O
column	O
headed	O
"	O
sex	O
"	O
would	O
have	O
entries	O
of	O
"	O
male	O
"	O
and	O
"	O
female	O
"	O
,	O
but	O
these	O
were	O
coded	O
by	O
the	O
application	B-Application
as	O
integers	O
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Category	O
data	O
were	O
used	O
to	O
perform	O
inferential	O
statistical	O
tests	O
such	O
as	O
t	B-General_Concept
tests	I-General_Concept
,	O
ANOVAs	O
,	O
and	O
chi	B-General_Concept
square	I-General_Concept
tests	I-General_Concept
.	O
</s>
<s>
Then	O
the	O
user	O
used	O
the	O
application	B-Application
's	O
menus	O
to	O
choose	O
descriptive	B-General_Concept
statistics	I-General_Concept
or	O
inferential	O
statistics	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
For	O
example	O
,	O
a	O
user	O
's	O
spreadsheet	B-Application
might	O
contain	O
columns	O
for	O
names	O
of	O
a	O
participant	O
in	O
a	O
survey	O
(	O
a	O
string	O
)	O
,	O
sex	O
(	O
a	O
category	O
variable	O
)	O
,	O
IQ	O
(	O
integer	O
)	O
,	O
and	O
years	O
using	O
a	O
PC	B-Device
(	O
real	O
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
By	O
designating	O
number	O
of	O
years	O
using	O
a	O
PC	B-Device
as	O
an	O
x	O
variable	O
and	O
IQ	O
as	O
a	O
y	O
variable	O
,	O
the	O
user	O
could	O
then	O
choose	O
from	O
a	O
menu	O
to	O
perform	O
a	O
regression	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
user	O
then	O
had	O
to	O
choose	O
from	O
another	O
menu	O
how	O
to	O
view	O
the	O
regression	O
in	O
a	O
separate	O
window	O
,	O
either	O
as	O
a	O
table	O
,	O
in	O
which	O
case	O
the	O
regression	O
equation	O
and	O
ANOVA	B-General_Concept
were	O
displayed	O
,	O
or	O
as	O
a	O
scattergram	B-Application
,	O
in	O
which	O
case	O
a	O
graph	O
of	O
the	O
data	O
and	O
the	O
regression	O
line	O
were	O
shown	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Contents	O
of	O
the	O
analysis	O
window	O
could	O
be	O
copied	O
either	O
as	O
text	O
or	O
as	O
a	O
PICT	B-Language
.	O
</s>
<s>
StatView	B-Algorithm
was	O
initially	O
distributed	O
by	O
BrainPower	O
Inc	O
from	O
California	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
grew	O
up	O
with	O
the	O
Macintosh	B-Device
,	O
changing	O
owners	O
along	O
the	O
way	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
StatView	B-Algorithm
3	O
to	O
5	O
were	O
distributed	O
by	O
Abacus	O
Corporation	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
was	O
then	O
bought	O
by	O
SAS	O
which	O
discontinued	O
it	O
in	O
favor	O
of	O
JMP	B-Language
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
application	B-Application
continued	O
to	O
run	O
under	O
Classic	O
emulation	O
with	O
Apple	O
's	O
Mac	B-Operating_System
OS	I-Operating_System
X	I-Operating_System
,	O
but	O
could	O
not	O
run	O
on	O
Intel	O
Macintoshes	B-Device
.	O
</s>
<s>
,	O
it	O
still	O
runs	O
under	O
OS	O
10.7.5	O
emulation	O
using	O
Basilisk	B-Application
II	I-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
StatView	B-Algorithm
2	O
was	O
called	O
StatView	B-Algorithm
SE	O
+	O
Graphics	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
included	O
ANOVA	B-General_Concept
with	O
one	O
repeated-measure	O
and	O
,	O
remarkably	O
,	O
a	O
factor	O
analysis	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
StatView	B-Algorithm
4	O
,	O
the	O
user	O
approach	O
changed	O
from	O
touching	O
the	O
to-be-analyzed	O
data	O
in	O
the	O
spreadsheet	B-Application
to	O
clicking	O
on	O
column	O
names	O
in	O
a	O
separate	O
window	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
For	O
example	O
,	O
multiway	O
repeated-measures	O
factors	O
could	O
be	O
included	O
in	O
ANOVAs	O
,	O
with	O
the	O
only	O
limit	O
being	O
the	O
memory	O
allocated	O
to	O
the	O
application	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
There	O
were	O
ANCOVA	B-General_Concept
and	O
MANOVA	B-General_Concept
too	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
StatView	B-Algorithm
4	O
also	O
became	O
available	O
for	O
PCs	B-Device
.	O
</s>
<s>
Statview	B-Algorithm
5.01	O
for	O
Windows	O
runs	O
without	O
issue	O
on	O
Windows	O
XP	O
,	O
Windows	O
7	O
Home	O
and	O
Pro	O
,	O
both	O
32	O
-	O
and	O
64-bit	O
systems	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Despite	O
its	O
lack	O
of	O
availability	O
and	O
support	O
and	O
the	O
difficulty	O
of	O
running	O
the	O
application	B-Application
on	O
Mac	B-Device
computers	I-Device
current	O
in	O
2009	O
,	O
StatView	B-Algorithm
still	O
has	O
some	O
loyal	O
users	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
A	O
former	O
StatView	B-Algorithm
employee	O
is	O
sometimes	O
able	O
to	O
rescue	O
old	O
data	O
trapped	O
in	O
StatView	B-Algorithm
formats	O
and	O
offers	O
this	O
service	O
in	O
exchange	O
for	O
charitable	O
contributions	O
to	O
worthy	O
causes	O
.	O
</s>
