Contents

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Table of Contents

Foreword

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Part I Contents

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Improvements to Version 3.0 of CAP  .................................................................................... 4

Part II Introduction

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Methods offered by CAP ......................................................................................................... 7

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Installation ................................................................................................................................ 7

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Quick guide to running a data set  ......................................................................................... 8

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Import from Excel  .................................................................................................................... 9

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Large data files  ........................................................................................................................ 9

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General instructions ................................................................................................................ 9

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Common errors and problems  ............................................................................................. 10

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Summary of data  ................................................................................................................... 12

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User preferences  ................................................................................................................... 12

Part III Opening a data set

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Demonstration data sets ....................................................................................................... 16

Part IV Creating and editing a data set

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Preparing large data sets in a spreadsheet program ......................................................... 18

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Data entry from within CAP  .................................................................................................. 19

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Editing existing data  ............................................................................................................. 20

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Saving edited data or creating a new data file .................................................................... 20

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Maximum size of the data set and computation speed  ..................................................... 21

Part V Printing and saving results

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Exporting charts  .................................................................................................................... 23

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Exporting dendrograms ........................................................................................................ 23

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Printing dendrograms  ........................................................................................................... 23

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Printing charts  ....................................................................................................................... 24

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Preparing charts for output  .................................................................................................. 24

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Printing and exporting text and grid output  ....................................................................... 28

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Zooming and panning on graphs  ........................................................................................ 28

Part VI Summary

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Data set statistics  .................................................................................................................. 30

Part VII Comparing and classifying

communities

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Organising your data for analysis  ....................................................................................... 33

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Searching for similarity ......................................................................................................... 34

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Cluster analysis  ..................................................................................................................... 35

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