Output files can be written in several formats, and called with different programs, so a dialog box is shown when output files are requested from the Output Files menu:
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Dialog box for most output files |
Dialog box for SIFILE= |
Output File Type: |
output file formats are shown here. |
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Display file? |
check (tick) if the output file is to be displayed by the relevant program. |
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Select fields + other options |
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Text Editor |
Output is a .txt file. If Display file? is checked, then the file is automatically displayed by Notepad or your own text editor. |
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Column headings |
check to produce column headings in the output file |
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Text: space-separated: fixed field |
output file is organized in columns. This is usually easiest to look at. |
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Text: tab-delimited |
columns are separated by Tab characters, which is useful for importing into modern software |
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Text: comma-separated fields |
columns are separated by commas or other characters equivalents, which may be required for importing into software |
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Separator character |
character to use instead of , for comma-separated fields |
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Labels in "quotation marks" |
place non-numeric values within quotation marks, required for correct importing of data into some software. |
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Text: for scatter-plots |
Chooses default settings for the IFILE= or PFILE=, suitable for scatter-plotting. These can be overridden using Select fields |
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Excel |
Output is a .xls file. Excel must be installed on your computer.
If Display file? is checked, then Excel is also activated on the Windows task bar, and the file may display. This message is in the Analysis Window: "Excel will activate soon. Please continue ..."
If the Excel file does not display, but you want it to, then please change the Windows Registry (at your own risk): a.Windows: Start >> Run >> regedit b.Navigate to the following path: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop c.Modify the value named ForegroundLockTimeout to 0
Do you want numerical person and item labels to become numbers (not text) in Excel? Then check "Convert numerical labels to numbers", see EXCELNUMBER=Yes Select decimal points or decimal commas for your Excel numbers, see EXCELDECIMAL= |
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Column headings |
check to produce column headings in row 1 of the Excel worksheet. |
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R-Statistics |
Output is an R Statistics .rdata file. If Display file? is checked, then the file is automatically displayed by RGui (if available). If this malfunctions, check that the path to R is correct with Edit Initial Settings. When the RGui window opens, type > print(data) # data is the name of a data.frame |
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This produces descriptive summary statistics for the R Statistics file using the "describe" function of the R Statistics "psych" package (courtesy of William Revelle). Example: "data" IFILE data frame: vars n mean sd median trimmed mad min max range MEASURE 2 18 -0.757 4.386 -1.960 -0.823 6.012 -6.590 6.130 12.720 skew kurtosis se Q0.25 Q0.75 MEASURE 0.145 -1.578 1.034 -3.830 3.087
Statistics are:
The median and the "mad", the mean of their absolute deviation from the median, multiplied by 1.4826, giving a "mad" value equivalent to an S.D. (Huber, 1981). For application, see "A Robust Method for Detecting Item Misfit in Large Scale Assessments" (2021) M. von Davier & U. Bezirhan |
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SPSS |
Output is a .sav file. If Display file? is checked, then the file is automatically displayed by SPSS (if available). If this malfunctions, check that the path to SPSS is correct with Edit Initial Settings. |
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Web page (HTML) |
Output is a .htm file. If Display file? is checked, then the file is automatically displayed by your Internet browser. |
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Sortable Web page (HTML) |
File output is a webpage with sortable columns |
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Word Doc (HTML) |
Output is a .htm file. If Display file? is checked, then the file is automatically displayed by Microsoft Word as a .doc |
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IADD=Y add item measures for GRFILE= |
Displayed only for GRFILE= graph file output. When checked, add the item difficulty to the measures shown in GRFILE=. Same as IADD=Yes. |
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File status: |
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Temporary file: automatic file name |
the file will be deleted when Winsteps terminates. "Save as" to make the file permanent. |
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Permanent file: request file name |
the file will not be deleted when Winsteps terminates. Type in the filename of your choice when Winsteps requests it |
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Buttons: |
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OK |
Perform the indicated actions |
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Cancel |
Return to Winsteps processing |
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Help |
Display this documentation |
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Set as default |
Make the select actions the permanent selections |
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