The spreadsheet displayed will invite you to input a rectangular or lower-triangular data matrix, according to the options you have specified for the selected procedure.
Note that, for most procedures, you can optionally enter your own row and column labels in the spreadsheet to assist in reading the subsequent results. Labels should consist of text characters only, without punctuation.
You may click on Read from file to load values in the appropriate order from a free format plain text file, which may have been exported directly from another program or created by cutting and pasting from a file in another format. Alternatively, click on Edit to paste data direct from the Windows clipboard.
If the first line of data in a file, or on the clipboard, contains a series of variable labels,
for example:
VAR1 VAR2 VAR3 VAR4
VAR5
99.0 51.1 71.4
63.0 58.6
51.1 99.0
75.8 52.7 52.7
71.4 75.8 99.0 36.9
40.8
63.0 52.7 36.9
99.0 32.3
58.6 57.7
40.8 32.3 99.0
where a symmetric matrix of similarity values is headed
by simple variable names, these will be inserted in the spreadsheet in the appropriate locations. A lower-triangular matrix may similarly be headed
by its corresponding variable names, with the same effect.
For the input of labelled configurations, the format is as follows:
VAR1
-0.1358 0.2993
-0.7294
VAR2
0.2229 -0.6381
0.5729
VAR3
0.2679 -0.7446 -0.3938
VAR4
-1.1287 0.2396
0.2875
VAR5
0.7737 0.8437
0.2628
These are the techniques to use to speed up importing and exporting data to and from NewMDSX. It is worth spending some time looking at them, in conjunction with the demonstration data provided with each routine, before attempting to enter your own data for analysis.
Use Reset to clear the spreadsheet in case of error.
Click on Continue to close the spreadsheet window and create the corresponding input file.
Note that it is also possible to use the main editor/interface to directly enter or modify input files.