Overview of the language and the basic concepts of Quantum spec writing

Constants, numbers and variables

Arithmetic and logical expressions

Types of records, data structure, trailer cards, reserved variables, merging data files and reading non-standard data files

Creating a new data file, copying records to a print file, and writing to a report file

Quantum assignment statements, adding and deleting codes in a column, forcing single-coded answers, setting a random code in a column, reading numeric codes into an array and clearing variables

if and else statements, routing around statements, loops, rejecting records, jumping to the tabulation section and canceling the run

Holecounts and frequency distributions

require statement, column and code validation, and validating logical expressions

Forced cleaning, on-line data correction, creating clean and dirty data files, correcting data from a corrections file, and missing values in numeric fields

Calling subroutines, the subroutines in the Quantum library, writing subroutines, and calling functions from C libraries

Defining variables in your Quantum spec

Data-mapped variables

Compiling and running a Quantum program

Introduction to creating tables in Quantum

Components of a tabulation program, the hierarchies of Quantum, how to define run conditions, the options that are available on the a, sectbeg, flt and tab statements, the default options file and some sample tables

Creating an axis, the types of elements within an axis, how to define conditions for an element, the n count creating elements, subheadings, netting and axes within axes

col, val, fld and bit statements, filtering within an axis, and options on axis elements

Totals, averages, means, the standard deviation, standard error and error variance statements and how to create percentiles

Special considerations for when axes are used for the columns of a table

Creating tables: syntax of the tab statement, multidimensional tables, multilingual surveys, combining tables, printing more than one table per page, and suppressing percentages and statistics with small bases.

Table titles, underlining titles, printing text at the foot of a page, table and page numbers and controlling table justification

Filtering tables: general filter statements, named filters and nested filter sections

Filing and retrieving statements, symbolic parameters and grid tables

An example of a Quantum specification and the tables it produces

The weighting methods that you can use in Quantum

Creating new rows and tables using previously created tables or parts of previously created tables

Analysis levels in Quantum

Axis-level and table-level statistical tests that are available in Quantum and provides details of the chi-squared tests, non-parametric tests on frequencies and Friedman’s two-way analysis of variance

Z, T and F tests that are available in Quantum

Including C code and edit statements in the tabulation section and how to sort tables

Special T statistics that are available in Quantum

Creating a formatted list of the tables that are produced by a Quantum run

Converting the standard tabulation output into a file suitable for printing on a PostScript laser printer

Summary of the options available in the tabulation section

Files you might need to create in order to use certain Quantum facilities, including the variables file, the levels file, the default options file, the run definitions file, the merges file, the corrections file, the rim weighting parameters file, and the C subroutine code file, aliases for Quantum statements, customized texts, and user-definable limits

Files created during a run

How to tidy up after a Quantum run and how to check column and code usage

Converting data to other formats: comma-delimited ASCII, UNICOM Intelligence format, and SAS format

Tasks you need to perform before converting a Quantum spec and data file into a Quanvert database

Files that are specific to either Quanvert Text or Windows-based Quanvert

How to create and maintain Quanvert databases

Transferring databases between computers and the programs provided to help you achieve this

Limits built into Quantum

Compilation error messages with suggestions as to why you might see them and how to solve the problems that cause them to appear

The Quantum data format

Using Quantum with data that contains characters in the extended ASCII character set

ASCII to punch code conversions

How to check whether a particularly large job will run on your computer