Upgrade Information

NCSS 8 Upgrade

We are pleased to announce the release of NCSS 8, the latest edition of our statistical analysis and graphics software. We are confident you will find the enhanced interface and greatly improved graphics system highly suitable for your research needs.

Graphics System Enhancements

• Full flexibility with axes, tick marks, gridlines, lines, fills, symbols, titles, legend, and more
• Major enhancements to:
  • Bar Charts
  • Box Plots
  • Circular Histograms
  • Contour Plots
  • Curve Fitting Plots
  • Density Plots
  • Dot Plots
  • Error-Bar Charts
  • Forecasting/Time Series Plots
  • Forest Plots
  • Function Plots
  • Histograms
  • Kaplan-Meier Survival Curves
  • Line Charts
  • Percentile Plots
  • Pie Charts
  • Probability Plots
  • Quality Control Charts
  • ROC Curves
  • Rose Plots
  • Scatter Plots
• Addition of new plots:
  • Bar Charts (2 Factors)
  • Box Plots (2 Factors)
  • Combo Charts
  • Combo Charts (2 Factors)
  • Comparative Histograms (2 Factors)
  • Density Plots (2 Factors)
  • Dot Plots (2 Factors)
  • Error-Bar Charts (2 Factors)
  • Line Charts (2 Factors)
  • Percentile Plots (2 Factors)
• Ability to adjust graphics settings with actual data
• Save graphs as jpeg, emf, gif, png, wmf, tiff, and bmp files
• Flexible painting order
• Easy saving of graphics setup files

Data Window Enhancements

• Simplified Filtering System with hide filtered rows option
• Much improved Transformation system with conditional (if-then) and recode transformation options
• Simplified Column Information tab window
• Easy importing and exporting, including exporting filtered subsets
• Quick button options to edit column names, labels, data types, formats, value labels, value ordering, transformations, notes, and filters
• Improved group ordering options
• Ability to set panes for easier data column or row comparison

Procedure Enhancements

• Enhanced procedure navigator, including procedure search, recent procedures, favorites, and loaded procedures quick buttons
• Saving procedure setup files (templates) to any location
• Simplified layouts, with independent graph specification

Output Enhancements

• Navigation pane to navigate to go directly to output sub-sections
• Enhanced output gallery with button add or auto-add options
• Improved viewing facilities with quick buttons