Editing

Abstract

Program EDITFL has numerous features to help you edit curve fitting data files, but program EDITMT should be used for statistics data files. Program SIMPLOT can read in plotting files to create graphs which you can edit interactively until the visual appearance is correct before saving the temporary file with the editing. Program EDITPS is able to edit the size, shape, angle of rotation, offsets, titles, etc. in PostScript files but it is also able to collect them into collages.

Details

SIMFIT has a set of easy-to-use editors that are specially designed for editing data files and manipulating PostScript graphics files, that is, .eps files.

Of course you can use any editor to edit your files, but in so doing you may unwittingly make changes that alter the meaning of your data or make the file unreadable. For instance, you may erase lines of data or add new lines and forget to alter the value of the header representing the number of data elements.

If your data are held in a spreadsheet file you would be advised to select the columns of interest, copy them to the clipboard and then paste them into the special editor program MAKSIM to transform them into files that are formatted according to the SIMFIT convention, before analysing or editing the data.

Use EDITFL if the file is for curve-fitting functions of one variable or preparing calibration curves. EDITFL has special facilities for changing measurement units, altering standard errors, checking/rearranging data, etc. before curve-fitting.

Use EDITMT with column vectors for inverse predictions from calibration curves, for data files for fitting functions of more than one variable, for editing matrices for statistical analysis or for preparing header and tail free (ASCII) files. EDITMT also has facilities for matrix manipulations.

Both editors create new files and leave originals unchanged.

Recommended ways to use MAKFIL and EDITFL

Recommended ways to use MAKMAT and EDITMT


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