JMPer Cable is a technical publication for users of JMP® software.

Cover Story: JMP and Excel

By Paul Nelson, JMP
JMP 9 offers a bonanza to all users of Microsoft Excel. The new JMP Add-In for Microsoft Excel easily moves data from Excel to JMP. It can also launch basic graphing platforms automatically. Your valuable Excel formula compositions can now be visualized interactively using the JMP Profiler – letting you instantly see the impact of changing formula factor values.

Is It Uniform? (p. 4)

By José G. Ramírez, Ph.D., W.L. Gore and Associates, Inc.
Wondering if your data can be described by a Uniform distribution? While Uniform is not one of the choices in the Continuous Fit contextual menu of the Distribution platform, you can use the beta distribution to see if the Uniform distribution is a good approximation for data by selecting Continuous Fit > Beta instead. Learn what to look for when fitting the beta.

Reliability Roars Back to JMP Training (p. 6)

By Mark Bailey, Education Division of SAS Institute Inc.
An updated JMP training course on reliability analysis will incorporate new capabilities in JMP:  Life Distribution and Fit Life by X. This revised course will first be offered at JMP Discovery Summit in September. If there are specific topics you would like it to address or examples you would like included, please e-mail with your suggestions.

File Type Associations in JMP (p. 7)

By Win LeDinh, SAS, Technical Support
A common question that JMP Technical Support receives deals with file type associations on Windows operating systems. For example, when double clicking on an Excel file, JMP is no longer the default application that opens the file. Or, if multiple versions of JMP are currently installed and JMP 9 is installed last, the file type associations are no longer associated to an earlier version that a user may want to use. This article discusses how to correct these problems.

A New ‘Little JMP Book’ (p. 6)

Discovering JMP 9 is the newest book in the JMP user guide series. It targets selected critical need-to-know features that will help every new user get started. And The Society for Technical Communication honored the book as both “Distinguished” and “Best in Show” in its 2010-2011 competition in the category of User Support Materials.

Using JMP 9 Scripting to Process Image Data (p. 9)

By John Sall, JMP
A JSL script uses new features in JMP 9 to read and process image data and then present images. Hyperspectral analysis is applicable for analyzing airborne or satellite ground cover, for quality control product inspections and for military intelligence, to name a few examples. This article focuses on images taken from the air of the Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve, the 1,200-acre biological field station on the campus of Stanford University in Palo Alto, CA.

Splitting Columns with a Group Variable (p. 12)

By Ann Lehman, JMP
Cleaning data and reorganizing the structure of information is often a necessary preliminary step to doing analyses. You rarely get data neat, clean and ready to go. The Tables menu in JMP has commands that can do data rearranging similar to that in the SAS system. Find out how to specify what you want in the JMP Tables menu launch windows.

JMP Add-Ins (p. 14)

By Melanie Drake, JMP
JMP 9 lets you take a script you’ve written and turn it into an add-in, a single executable file that installs itself into JMP, without doing anything special to the script itself. Anyone who uses JMP 9 can install your add-in for free. Follow the steps to write an add-in and find the list of featured add-ins on the JMP File Exchange.

New in JMP 9: Normal Mixtures Fit in the Distribution Platform (p. 13)

The Normal Mixtures option on the Distribution platform in JMP fits a mixture of normal distributions to a single variable. This flexible distribution is especially useful for fitting multi-model data.

 

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