Implemented long variable names a la spss V12.

[pspp-builds.git] / doc / statistics.texi

diff --git a/doc/statistics.texi b/doc/statistics.texi
index 19fe6d5abcab12f21db907760203f97999fda7b8..26266e4e867c5b6420a326e1e73244b193f23b82 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/statistics.texi
+++ b/doc/statistics.texi
@@ -230,6 +230,7 @@ EXAMINE
         /COMPARE=@{GROUPS,VARIABLES@}
         /ID=@{case_number, var_name@}
         /@{TOTAL,NOTOTAL@}
+        /PERCENTILE=[value_list]=@{HAVERAGE, WAVERAGE, ROUND, AEMPIRICAL, EMPIRICAL @}
         /MISSING=@{LISTWISE, PAIRWISE@} [@{EXCLUDE, INCLUDE@}] 
                [@{NOREPORT,REPORT@}]
 
@@ -258,9 +259,23 @@ how many upper and lower extremes to show.  The default number is 5.
 
 The PLOT subcommand specifies which plots are to be produced if any.
 
+The COMPARE subcommand is only relevant if producing boxplots, and it is only 
+useful there is more than one dependent variable and at least one factor.   If 
+/COMPARE=GROUPS is specified, then one plot per dependent variable is produced,
+containing boxplots for all the factors.
+If /COMPARE=VARIABLES is specified, then one plot per factor is produced, each 
+each containing one boxplot per dependent variable.
+If the /COMPARE subcommand is ommitted, then PSPP uses the default value of 
+/COMPARE=GROUPS.
+
 The CINTERVAL subcommand specifies the confidence interval to use in
 calculation of the descriptives command.  The default it 95%.
 
+The PERCENTILES subcommand specifies which percentiles are to be calculated, 
+and which algorithm to use for calculating them.  The default is to
+calculate the 5, 10, 25, 50, 75, 90, 95 percentiles using the
+HAVERAGE algorithm.
+
 The TOTAL and NOTOTAL subcommands are mutually exclusive.  If NOTOTAL
 is given and factors have been specified in the VARIABLES subcommand,
 then then statistics for the unfactored dependent variables are
@@ -586,7 +601,7 @@ of variable preceding @code{WITH} against variable following
 
 @node ONEWAY, , T-TEST, Statistics
 @comment  node-name,  next,  previous,  up
-@section Oneway
+@section ONEWAY
 
 @vindex ONEWAY
 @cindex analysis of variance