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How-To

Step-by-step guides for getting a specific job done in Stratum — short, practical, and reproducible.

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Open an SPSS .sav File on a Mac (No SPSS Licence)

Read variable and value labels straight off a .sav — no SPSS, no CSV round-trip.

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Welch's ANOVA: When Variances Aren't Equal

Classical ANOVA crowns a false winner (p=0.0005); Welch says it's noise (p=0.42).

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ANCOVA: Comparing Groups While Adjusting for a Covariate

Compare group means the fair way — hold a covariate constant, straight from menus.

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Multiple Regression That Isn't Fooled by Confounders

Add one variable and watch the R² climb — and the story flip.

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How to Make a Q-Q Plot (Mac & Windows)

Check whether your data is normal — read the line, spot skew and tails.

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How to Build a Decision Tree (Mac & Windows)

An interpretable model: grow it, prune it, read importance, and predict.

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How to Make a Violin Plot (Mac & Windows)

Compare groups by full distribution shape — and spot bimodality a box plot hides.

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How to See Every Variable Pair at Once

See every variable pair at once with the Scatter chart's Matrix mode.

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How to Run a Linear Regression (Mac & Windows)

Build a model from menus, read R² and coefficients, and check the diagnostics.

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How to Run PCA (Mac & Windows)

Reduce many variables to a few components; read the scree plot and biplot.

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How to Build a Control Chart (Mac & Windows)

I-MR and X-bar charts with control limits and automatic Nelson-rule flagging.

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How to Make a Scatter Plot (Mac & Windows)

Plot two variables, add a line of best fit, and read the correlation.

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How to Make a Histogram (Mac & Windows)

See the shape of a variable — pick bins, read skew, and export.

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How to Run a One-Way ANOVA (Mac & Windows)

Compare three or more group means, read F and p, and run a Tukey post-hoc.

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How to Run a t-Test (Mac & Windows) — Without R or Python

Compare two groups and read the result in under a minute — no code, no notebooks.

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How to Make a Box Plot (Mac & Windows)

Compare groups and spot outliers with a box-and-whisker plot — in under a minute.