Types of chart
The most popular types of charts available, are shown here. Further styles are also available such as Gantt, Bubble and Hi-Lo. Area charts Area Charts are most often used to emphasise the relative importance of values over a period of time. An area chart focuses on the magnitude of change rather than the rate of […]
Choosing what is displayed in a table
You can specify whether the different row and column labels should appear in your table. For each section you can select whether to show row and column labels, row labels only, column labels only or none. If your table contains questions with multiple codes, you can decide whether the question text appears above the code […]
Changing the position of text and the size of table cells
The text in tables is placed in cells. You can position the text in the top, bottom or middle of a cell, and aligned left, right or centre. You can also specify how far the text is from the edge of the cell to give more or less space between the text and cell borders. […]
Changing the highlighting and spacing of rows and columns
You can define highlights which are used to highlight some of the rows or columns of a table. You specify the look of the highlight in the Define Table style dialog, and which rows or columns are highlighted in the Separators dialog. Defining how the lines will look Open the table to be changed Click […]
Changing the lines between table rows and columns
The default style of an analysis table has lines around each cell of the table to create a boxed effect. Each of the regions of a table can be defined to include or exclude any of these lines. This is done using the Define Table Style dialog. Open the table to be changed Click , […]
Using table styles
Editing table styles You can edit the way the table looks using the Table styles, Separators, Sizing and Options dialogs available from the context menu. Loading table styles You can load an existing style by The table style files have the extension .tsf . Styles provided with Snap XMP Desktop are stored in the Styles […]
Table appearance
You can control the appearance of an analysis table by changing fonts, colours, grids, highlights and sizing. You can save your style for later use. You make the changes from the table style menu: Edit Styles, Separators, Sizing, Options, Load Style and Save Style. There are two ways to open the menu from the Table […]
Statistical significance in tables (z-test)
The z-test is used to compare two percentage scores to see if the difference between them is statistically significant. This means: Is the difference in percentage scores in the table purely a result of the sample used, or does it indicate a real difference in percentages in the target population? For each row in a […]
Creating a table using a scoring system
The example shows how to apply a score to calculate the mean value of a service. It is applied to a single rating question (with a Single Response) in a cross-tabulation. The different ratings are labelled as Very good (scored as +2) down to Very poor (scored as -2). This example assumes that you have […]
Confidence intervals in tables
You can display confidence statistics in tables. These show how confident you can be that a specified proportion of the population lie within a calculated range. The confidence intervals are available in the Summary Statistics tab of the Analysis Tailoring dialog. Confidence intervals on percentage values The most common use of confidence intervals is when […]