Data Panel

Data , View > Analysis Controls > Data

Data Table
Object/Field Data

Select what data to display in the left part of the window from the Object Data/Field Data pull-down menu. Object data describe each detected grain, field data describe the field (one measurement action) statistics.

Reset Data

Erases all data of the currently selected method.

Show Data

De-selecting this button can hide the object / field data table.

Show Statistics

Displays an additional table where overall statistics (Mean, Standard Deviation, Minimum, Maximum) are displayed.

Show Histogram

Expands the control panel by a histogram of the currently displayed data.

Export

Exports the data to a file.

Please, see the Exporting Results chapter of the core system manual for further details about this pull-down menu.

Options

This pull-down menu consists of additional commands. It is possible to load/save complete measurement settings to/from an external (*.meas) file.

Statistics and Results
Grain size G

The result of the measurement rounded to 0.5.

Histogram

Apart from common appearance settings - like color, line width, or default text descriptions of the histogram items - there are the following options in the window:

Pull-down menu

serving for selecting a measurement feature, the distribution of which shall be displayed.

Export

The minimized version of the standard Export pull-down menu.

Please, see the Exporting Results chapter for further details.

Options
Mode

In the Mode pull-down menu, you can select the way of displaying the Y axis (number, number in %, cumulative, cumulative in %).

Line histogram

The histogram can be switched to be displayed as a continuous line instead of a number of bars.

Bins Definition

Select the Bins tab in order to adjust the way bins of the histogram are created. If the histogram bins shall be equidistant, bin width, minimum and maximum values can be set. If non-equidistant, each bin limit value should be put inside the definition table.

Graph, Table

you can switch between the graph and the table view via these buttons. The histogram source data are displayed in the table view.

All Data

the resulting data can be grouped by any of the table values (dragging the column caption to the gray area above the data table will create the groups). Records with matching values are put to the same group. This arrangement enables you to compare statistics of these groups in the histogram:

  • Group the results according to one or more columns.

  • Click the All Data button. A pop-up window appears displaying the list of groups or their combinations.

  • Holding the Ctrl key down, select the groups you would like to display in the histogram. A color will be assigned to each group.

  • To discard the grouped display, select the All Data option on the top of the list.