Allin Cottrell schrieb: > You have a point. I'm not totally clear on how all the specific menu > items should best be distributed between the Data, Sample and Variable > headings. The layout has basically "just grown" to its current form, > and I'd be glad to hear suggestions for rationalizing it.
Ok, here are my suggestions for the "evolution" of the menu structure, reshuffling some menu entries between the "data", "sample", "variable" menus to hopefully make it more intuitive. (Of course, sometimes it might be the case that I simply haven't understood what the respective command really does... In those cases, please correct and enlighten me.) I) "Data" menu: I interpret that as relating to the loaded dataset as a whole, so one may think of renaming that to "Dataset" instead. Given that interpretation, the following items should be moved elsewhere: 1. graph specified vars (-> "sample") 2. Multiple scatterplots (-> "sample") 3. everything from summary statistics to differences of variances should also go to "sample" II) "Sample" menu: in my view, all commands that act on or modify data in the current sample range (as opposed to the entire dataset) should come here. (see what was moved from "data" in I) Therefore remove: 1. Dataset structure / compact data /expand data (-> "data(set)") 2. restructure panel / transpose data (also -> "data(set)") [3. not sure about the missing-value and case marker things, don't know enough about them) III) "Variable" menu: interpreted as variants of univariate analsis, so move: 1. find (-> "data(set)") 2. define new variable ( "data(set)") [3. again not sure about the missing-value issue, why here _and_ in "sample"?) So what do you guys think? Of course experienced users would have to adapt, but I would argue the changes are relatively mild and make more sense in the longer run. cheers, sven
