640 Using Data & Statistics
Animating a slider
An animated slider steps repeatedly through its range, using the slider’s
Step Size.
` Access the slider’s context Menu and select
Animate.
Note: To stop the animation, click
Stop Animate. Animation also
stops if you lock the slider’s associated variable.
Removing a slider
Removing a slider does not delete the variable associated with the slider.
1. Click in the slider’s selection rectangle to select it.
2. Press
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Tips for using sliders
Use multiple sliders for a variable
• You can assign the same variable to multiple sliders. This lets you see
the effect of adjusting a variable by different step sizes or through
different ranges.
Deselect a slider
• To deselect a slider, click another part of the work area, press d, or
press ee to move to another element in the work area.
Associate a different variable with a slider
• Click the text box for the variable name and type the name of the
numeric variable to use.
• With the slider active, click the h button to select a variable from
the list.
Inferential Statistics
You can explore hypothesis tests and probability distributions in the
Data & Statistics application after entering the data on a
Lists & Spreadsheet page.
Drawing inferential statistics plots
The following example uses the Draw option of the normCdf() function
to plot a distribution model.
1. On a Lists & Spreadsheet page, select the column-formula cell (second
cell from the top) in column A.