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WINKS Updates

Updates for WINKS SDA Version 6.0.5a

Important Before Updating:

• Make sure you have your version 6.0 activation code. It is available by selecting Help/About from the WINKS menu.
• Uninstall the current WINKS 6 program by choosing Start/Programs/TexaSoft/WINKS SDA 6/Uninstall WINKS (This should not erase any of your data files, but it is always advisable to keep backups of all data files.)
• DOWNLOAD the latest update for WINKS SDA 6 (Version 6.0.5a)

April 4, 2008 (6.05a)

1. Corrected problems with descriptive statistics/grouping variables and with program sometimes using 0 as missing values in grouped mean when a missing value was not defined for the dataset.
2. Corrected problem with filtering data in editor.

March 22, 2008 (6.05)

1. Added Outcomes and Probabilities module that calculates combinations and Permutations (Tools menu)
2. Corrected occasional problem in filter procedures in data editor
3. Corrected occasional problem of importing character values fields for .CSV files.
4. Added Grubbs & Tukey tests for outliers (Analyze/Descriptives menu)
5. Added an evaluation version of Kwikstat Data Generator (Tools menu)
6. Added Tukey Style Multiple Comparisons of Proportions to Crosstabulations procedures for 2xc or rx2 tables

October 1, 2007

1. Allow labels in crosstabulations entered from keyboard
2. Edit/Create indicator variables from a categorical variable
3. Allows you to select if risk measures are shown in 2x2 crosstabulation output
4. Fix for importing Excel file with date variables
5. Fix for sensitivity and specificity calculations when there are zeros in some cells
6. Added 95% CI for single sample t-test

July 7, 2007

1. Import a specific Excel spreadsheet when multiple sheets are in a workbook

2. Export Excel spreadsheets with variable names on first row

3. Fixes for missing values that sometimes were not saved

4. ROC curve, sensitivity and specificity added to Logistic regression

5. Additional Excel graphs added

6. Create frequency graphs (bar and pie) from raw data

7. Repeat last analysis with one click (repeat icon)

8. Fix for sort that sometimes did not work

9. Fix for delete column that sometimes did not work

10. Prompts monthly to check on the availability of a program update

11. Other minor and cosmetic fixes

June 19, 2007 version 6.0.2

1. Fixes for some bugs involved with reading Excel files.
2. Other cosmetic fixes.

May 22, 2007: Version 6.0.1

1. A fix to setting decimal points in Attributes, which sometimes did not work.
2. Initial implementation of an optional feature where a write-up describing the results of a test is included in the output. This initial implementation includes write-ups for t-test, paired t-test, one-way ANOVA and correlation.
3. Addition of 95% confidence intervals for Pearson correlations.
4. A fix to the missing values -- sometimes they disappeared.
5. A fix to keep the same save directory for multiple save files.
6. A fix to make installation on Vista Windows work better.
7. Added the Getting Started Guide to the Help menu and an easy access button.

Updates to WINKS 4.8 Manual

None

Updates to WINKS 4.8 Program

8-15-05 - Updated install to one that does a better job of uninstalling.

1-7-05 - Corrections were made to some of the graph labels and a bug was fixed that sometimes made Fisher's p-value too large.

1-25-05 -- Correction made to One Way ANOVA -- when text variable used for grouping variable the labels on the results were sometimes incorrectly sorted.

To get the latest full WINKS 4.8 update please contact us at info@texasoft.com.

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