X-Git-Url: https://pintos-os.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2Fintroduction.texi;h=2e74a6f453a033277149798e01cb4d30c8fe5de9;hb=c8adc6783134063d4ada34a58f9e7abf6a039bb2;hp=1516314ed28ba115bc35a88a87112224affad14f;hpb=9d1bfb34842de4a129140622ee3d800297c0e69d;p=pspp diff --git a/doc/introduction.texi b/doc/introduction.texi index 1516314ed2..2e74a6f453 100644 --- a/doc/introduction.texi +++ b/doc/introduction.texi @@ -1,15 +1,24 @@ +@c PSPP - a program for statistical analysis. +@c Copyright (C) 2017, 2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc. +@c Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document +@c under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 +@c or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; +@c with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. +@c A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU +@c Free Documentation License". +@c @node Introduction @chapter Introduction @cindex introduction @cindex @pspp{} language @cindex language, @pspp{} -@pspp{} is a tool for statistical analysis of sampled data. +@pspp{} is a tool for statistical analysis of sampled data. It reads the data, analyzes the data according to commands provided, and writes the results to a listing file, to the standard output or to a window of the graphical display. The language accepted by @pspp{} is similar to those accepted by SPSS -statistical products. +statistical products. The details of @pspp{}'s language are given later in this manual. @cindex PostScript @@ -17,7 +26,7 @@ The details of @pspp{}'s language are given later in this manual. @cindex HTML @cindex DocBook @pspp{} produces tables and charts as output, which it can produce in -several formats; currently, ASCII, PostScript, PDF, HTML, and DocBook are +several formats; currently, ASCII, PostScript, PDF, HTML, DocBook and @TeX{} are supported. The current version of @pspp{}, @value{VERSION}, is incomplete in