PACKAGE |STAT Data Manipulation and Analysis, by Gary Perlman
NAME |STAT - compact data analysis programs (1980-1987)
DESCRIPTION |STAT is a set of data manipulation and analysis programs developed by Gary Perlman while at the University of California, San Diego and at the Wang Institute of Graduate Studies. The programs are designed with the UNIX philosophy that individual programs should be designed as tools that do one task well and produce output suitable for input via pipes to other programs. Interactive use is supported in the UNIX shell which also provides a programming language for complex analyses. Functionality often built into statistical packages (e.g., graphics, sorting and other data manipulation) is not re-invented in |STAT which delegates such responsibility to standard UNIX tools.

DATA MANIPULATION PROGRAMS 

 1  abut          join data files
 2  colex         column extraction/formatting
 3  dm            column oriented data manipulator
 4  dsort         multiple-key data line sorting filter
 5  ff            fast plain text formatter
 6  fpack         plain text file archiver
 7  linex         line extraction
 8  maketrix      create matrix type file from free-form file
 9  perm          permute line order
10  probdist      probability distribution functions
11  ranksort      rank order columns
12  repeat        repeat a pattern or file
13  reverse       reverse lines, columns, and characters
14  series        print a series of numbers
15  transpose     transpose matrix type file
16  validata      verify data file consistency

ANALYSIS PROGRAMS 

 1  anova         multi-factor analysis of variance
 2  calc          interactive algebraic modeling calculator
 3  contab        contingency tables and chi-square
 4  desc          descriptions, histograms, frequency tables
 5  dprime        signal detection d' and beta calculations
 6  features      display features of items
 7  oneway        one-way anova and t-test and error-bar plots
 8  pair          paired data statistics, regression, plots
 9  rankind       rank order analysis for independent conditions
10  rankrel       rank order analysis for related conditions
11  regress       multiple linear regression
12  stats         report summary statistics
13  ts            time series analysis and plots
OPTIONS The following standard help options are supported by most programs. Programs exit after displaying the help.
-L
Display limits
-O
Display options and values
-V
Display version number and date
SEE ALSO The |STAT Handbook (140K HTML) (165K PDF) (130K TXT)

Other tools: awk, cat, cp, grep, ls, mv, pr, rm, sed, sh, sort, uniq, and more recently perl