1 | Data Type:
Specify the type of failure data you are analyzing. There are two options available:
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2 | Method:
Specify the analysis methodology. There are two options available:
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3 | Num Rows: Specify the number of rows of input data you would like to consider for analysis. This data will be used to reformat the worksheet. | ||||||
4 | Create/Analyze: Select the checkbox for Create design if you would like to update the design onto the worksheet. Once you have entered the data on the worksheet, select the checkbox for Analyze design to analyze the data you have entered and generate analysis results. | ||||||
5 | Help Button: Click on this button to open the help file for this topic. | ||||||
6 | Cancel Button: Click on this button to cancel all changes to the settings and exit this dialog box. | ||||||
7 | OK Button: Click on this button to save all changes and compute the outputs for this analysis. |
1 | Search Data: The available data displays all the columns of data that are available for analysis. You can use the search bar to filter this list and to speed up finding the right data to use for analysis. Enter a few characters in the search field and the software will filter and display the filtered data in the Available Data box. | ||||||
2 | Available Data: The available data box contains the list of data available for analysis. If your workbook does not have any data in tabular format, this box will display "No Data Found". The information displayed in this box includes the row number, whether the data is Numeric (N) or Text (T), and the name of the column variable. Note that the software displays data from all the tables in the current workbook. Even though data within the same table have unique column names, columns across different tables can have similar names. Hence, it is important that you not only specify the column name but also the table name. | ||||||
3 | Add or View Data: Click on this button either to add more data into your workbook for analysis or to view more details about the data listed in the available data box. When you click on this button, it opens up the Data Editor dialog box where you can import more data into your workbook, or you can switch from the list view to a table view to see the individual data values for each column. | ||||||
4 | Required Data: The code for the required data specifies what data can be specified for that box. An example code is N: 2-4. If the code starts with an N, then you will need to select only numeric columns. If the code starts with a T, then you can select both numeric and text columns. The numbers to the right of the colon specify the min-max values. For example, if the min-max values are 2-4, then you need to select a minimum of 2 columns of data and a maximum of 4 columns of data in this box. If the minimum value is 0, then no data is required to be specified for this box. | ||||||
5 | Select Button: Click on this button to select the data for analysis. Any data you select for the analysis is moved to the right. To select a column, click on the columns in the Available Databox to highlight them and then click on the Select Button. A second method to select the data is to double click on the columns in the list of Available Data. Finally, you can also drag and drop the columns you are interested in by holding down the select columns using your left mouse key and dragging and dropping them in one of the boxes on the right. | ||||||
6 | Selected Data:
If the right amount of data columns has been specified, the list box header will be displayed in the black color. If sufficient data has not been specified, then the list box header will be displayed in the red color. Note that you can double-click on any of the columns in this box to remove them from the box. The data you specify for this analysis depends on the options you have specified in the Setup tab.
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7 | View Selection: Click on this button to view the data you have specified for this analysis. The data can be viewed either in a tablular format or in a graphical summary. |
1 | Sample Size:
Specify the analysis methodology. There are two options available:
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2 | Parameter:
Specify the parameter value for the sample size calculator. There are two options available:
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3 | Scale: Specify the scale parameter for the distribution for sample size estimation. This parameter is not required if we are not using the sample size estimator. If you specify this value as "Auto" then the software will estimate this value from your failure data. | ||||||||
4 | Shape: Specify the shape parameter for the distribution for sample size estimation. This parameter is not required if we are not using the sample size estimator. If you specify this value as "Auto" then the software will estimate this value from your failure data. | ||||||||
5 | Max Failures: Specify the maximum number of failures that can be tolerated for the sample size study. This value can range from 0 to the number of samples. | ||||||||
6 | Confidence Level: Specify the confidence level (1 - alpha) for this analysis. The default value is 95%. |
0 | Pick Charts: Select the charts you would like to display for this analysis. |
1 | Title: The system will automatically pick a title for your chart. However, if you would like to override that with your own title you can specify a title for your chart here. Note that this input is optional. |
2 | Sub Title: The system will automatically pick a subtitle for your chart. However, if you would like to override that with your own subtitle you can specify a subtitle for your chart here. Note that this input is optional. |
3 | X Label: The system will automatically pick a label for the x-axis. However, if you would like to override that with your own label for the x-axis you can specify a different label here. Note that this input is optional. |
4 | Y Label: The system will automatically pick a label for the y-axis. However, if you would like to override that with your own label for the y-axis you can specify a different label here. Note that this input is optional. |
5 | X Axis: The system will automatically pick a scale for the x-axis. However, if you would like to override that with your values for the x-axis, you can specify them here. The format for this input is to specify the minimum, increment, and maximum values separated by a semi-colon. For example, if you specify 10;20 then the minimum x-axis scale is set at 10 and the maximum x-axis scale is set at 20. If you specify 10;2;20, then, in addition to minimum and maximum values, the x-axis increment is set at 2. Note that this input is optional. |
6 | Y Axis: The system will automatically pick a scale for the y-axis. However, if you would like to override that with your values for the y-axis, you can specify them here. The format for this input is to specify the minimum, increment, and maximum values separated by a semi-colon. For example, if you specify 10;20 then the minimum y-axis scale is set at 10 and the maximum y-axis scale is set at 20. If you specify 10;2;20, then, in addition to minimum and maximum values, the y-axis increment is set at 2. Note that this input is optional. |
7 | Horizontal Lines: If you want to add a few extra horizontal reference lines on top of your chart you can specify the values here. The format for this input is numeric values separated by semi-colon. For example, if you specify 12;15 then two horizontal lines are plotted at Y = 12 and Y = 15 respectively. Note that this input is optional. |
8 | Vertical Lines: If you want to add a few extra vertical reference lines on top of your chart you can specify the values here. The format for this input is numeric values separated by semi-colon. For example, if you specify 2;5 then two vertical lines are plotted at X = 2 and X = 5 respectively. Note that this input is optional. |