Click the File tab, click Options, and then click the Add-Ins category. If you're using Excel 2007, click the Microsoft Office Button, and then click Excel Options In the Manage box, select Excel Add-ins and then click Go. If you're using Excel for Mac, in the file menu go to Tools Excel Add-ins. StatTools provides a comprehensive and intuitive data set and variable manager right in Excel. Data sets and variables can reside in different workbooks, allowing you to organize your data as you see fit. Run statistical analyses that refer to your variables, instead. StatTools performs forecasting and statistical analysis in Microsoft Excel. It replaces Excel’s built-in statistics functions with its own, more robust and accurate functions. StatTools covers the most common statistical analyses, and even allows you to build your own custom statistical procedures.
A New Statistics and Forecasting Toolset for your Spreadsheet
Have you ever needed forecasting, regression, quality control charts, or other statistical analyses beyond the basics that are provided with Excel? Have you ever doubted the accuracy of some of Excel’s statistical results? StatTools addresses both of these issues, providing a new, powerful statistics toolset to Excel.
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StatTools covers the most commonly used statistical procedures, and offers unprecedented capabilities for adding new, custom analyses. StatTools replaces Excel’s built-in statistics functions with its own calculations. The accuracy of Excel’s built-in statistics calculations has often been questioned, so StatTools doesn’t use them. All StatTools functions are true Excel functions, and behave exactly as native Excel functions do. Over 30 wide-ranging statistical procedures plus 9 built-in data utilities include forecasts, time series, descriptive statistics, normality tests, group comparisons, correlation, regression analysis, quality control, nonparametric tests, and more.
StatTools features live, 'hot-linked' statistics calculations. Change a value in your dataset and your statistics report automatically updates. There is no need to manually re-run your analyses.
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Kruskal-Wallis Test
This non-parametric test comparing three or more populations has been added in response to customer demand.
Data Viewer
This allows you to view any Excel data set with the same charting engine used to create @RISK graphs and tables. The Data Viewer can pull from any data source -- no simulation needs to be run. With an easy-to-use, intuitive interface, users can simply select any variable to instantly create graphs with Palisade’s amazing graphing engine—which can then be manipulated, customized, and used for reporting and sharing. You can create histograms, cumulative charts, trend plots, box plots, and more.
The Data Viewer Summary View, showing thumbnail histograms that can be dragged off for further analysis.
Cluster Analysis
Groups similar items within your data, so that items in the same group are more similar than to those in other groups. This helps the user highlight and quantify differences between data points.
A Dendrogram is part of the Cluster Analysis report; it shows the steps of the process of grouping items based on the degree of similarity.
Principal Component Analysis
Takes large datasets and reduces the dimensionality, eliminating unimportant details while highlighting strong patterns within the data.
The Principal Component Analysis report includes a Score Plot, which represents the input multi-dimensional data in two dimensions (with optional color-coding based on a categorical variable).
Upgraded Regressions
Setting up dummy variables and other manual processes are a thing of the past. Now, you can perform complex regressions in just a single click.
Categorical Bar Charts
New, eye-catching bar chart graphs for categorical variables provide a convenient method for showcasing your results.
This Bar Chart shows multiple categorical variables at a glance.
| » See StatTools forecast in Excel. Click to view larger graphic. |
How StatTools Works
First, you define your data in StatTools. Then, you perform any of over 30 different types of analysis on your data set, depending on your situation.
StatTools provides a comprehensive and intuitive data set and variable manager right in Excel. You can define any number of data sets, each with the variables you want to analyze, directly from your data in Excel. StatTools intelligently assesses your blocks of data, suggesting variable names and locations for you. Your data sets and variables can reside in different workbooks, allowing you to organize your data as you see fit. Run statistical analyses that refer to your variables, instead of re-selecting your data over and over again in Excel. StatTools fully supports the expanded worksheet size in Excel 2007-2010. Plus, you can define variables that span multiple worksheets.
Once your data sets have been defined, choose a procedure from the StatTools menu or write your own, custom procedure. To write your own, StatTools includes a complete, object-oriented, programming interface—the Excel Developer Kit (XDK). Custom statistical procedures may be added using Excel's built-in VBA programming language, which allows you to utilize StatTools's built-in data management, charting and reporting tools.
| » See StatTools Data Set Manager. Click to view larger graphic. |
StatTools Analyses
The statistical procedures available in StatTools come in the following natural groups.
Statistical Inference: This group performs the most common statistical inference procedures of confidence intervals and hypothesis tests.
Forecasting: StatTools gives you several methods for forecasting a time series variable. You can also deseasonalize the data first, using the ratio-to-moving-averages method and a multiplicative seasonality model. Then use a forecasting method to forecast your deseasonalized data, and finally “reseasonalize” the forecasts to return to original units.
The outputs include a set of new columns to show the various calculations (for example, the smoothed levels and trends for Holt’s method, the seasonal factors from the ratio-to-moving-averages method, and so on), the forecasts, and the forecast errors. Summary measures such as MAE, RMSE and MAPE are also included for tracking the fit of the model to the observed data. Finally, several time series plots are available, including a plot of the original series, a plot of the series with forecasts superimposed, and a plot of the forecast errors. In cases using deseasonalized data, these plots are available for the original and deseasonalized series.
Classification Analysis: StatTools provides both discriminant analysis and logistic regression. Discriminant analysis predicts which of several groups a variable will fall in, and logistic regression is a nonlinear type of regression analysis where the response variable is 0 or 1 for “failure” or “success.” You can then estimate the probability of success.
Data Management: This group allows you to manipulate your data set in various ways, either by rearranging the data or by creating new variables. These operations are typically performed before running a statistical analysis.
Summary Analyses: This group allows you to calculate several numerical summary measures for single variables or pairs of variables.
Tests for Normality: Because so many statistical procedures assume that a set of data are normally distributed, it is useful to have methods for checking this assumption. StatTools provides three commonly used checks: Chi-square, Lilliefors, and Q-Q plot.
Regression Analysis: For each of these analyses, the following outputs are given: summary measures of each regression equation run, an ANOVA table for each regression, and a table of estimated regression coefficients and other statistics. In addition, StatTools gives you the option of creating two new variables: the fitted values and residuals. Plus, you can create a number of diagnostic scatterplots.
Quality Control Charts: This set of procedures produces control charts that allow you to see whether a process is in statistical control. Each of the procedures takes time series data and plots them in a control chart. This allows you to see whether the data stay within the control limits on the chart. You can also tell if other nonrandom behavior is present, such as long runs above or below the centerline. Each of these procedures provides the option of using all the data or only part of the data for constructing the chart. Furthermore, each lets you base the control limits on the given data or on limits from previous data.
Nonparametric Tests: Nonparametric tests are statistical procedures which can be used to make successful inferences when there is little available data. They are more robust than many of the widely known parametric hypothesis tests. Nonparametric tests do not always need the parametric assumptions—such as normality—or generalized assumptions regarding the underlying distribution. In most cases, the nonparametric tests are much easier to apply and provide clearer interpretation than traditional parametric tests.
Excel Ease of Use
StatTools is a true add-in to Microsoft Excel, integrating completely with your spreadsheet. Browse, define, analyze – while never leaving Excel. StatTools replaces Excel’s built-in statistics functions with its own calculations. All StatTools functions are true Excel functions, and behave exactly as native Excel functions do. StatTools calculations are optimized through the use of C++ .DLLs, not macro calculations.
Two Editions to Meet Your Needs
StatTools comes in Professional and Industrial editions. The Industrial edition of StatTools adds Expanded Data Sets. With Expanded Data Sets, you can define variables that span multiple worksheets. The Professional edition allows 10,000 data points for a single variable.
I applaud StatTools' powerful statistical analysis. The mathematics in Excel leave something to be desired. Long ago I re-wrote Excel's statistical functions as add-in macros due to the lack of precision within Excel. After testing a few of my favorite hand-written algorithms (Tinv, NormSdist, Normdist, Norminv, Binomdist, to name a few) against the ones you've included withthe package, our numbers agree to the last digit! At last, someone takes the initiative! Thank you! Part of the DecisionTools Suite StatTools is available by itself or as part of the DecisionTools Suite, Palisade’s complete risk and decision analysis toolkit. The DecisionTools Suite includes @RISK for risk analysis with Monte Carlo simulation, NeuralTools for predictions using neural networks, Evolver for optimization, PrecisionTree for decision trees, and more. StatTools is fully compatible with all DecisionTools programs and can be combined with them for greater insight and analysis. For example: StatTools and @RISK then RISKOptimizerCombine StatTools with @RISK to assess confidence intervals on simulation results. You can also apply @RISK functions to StatTools time-series forecast results to simulate possible outcomes with more precision than the times-series analysis alone. Run RISKOptimizer on your model using the same @RISK functions in order to find the best combination of factors to maximize your forecasted profits. »More about The DecisionTools Suite Save Over 50% When You Buy the Suite 100% Excel StatTools calculations are performed 100% within Excel,supported by Palisade sampling and statistics proven inover twenty years of use. Palisade does not attempt to rewrite Excel in an external recalculator to gain speed. Asingle recalculation from an unsupported or poorly reproduced macro or function can dramatically change your results. Where will it occur, and when? Get accurate results using StatTools! COMPATIBILITY: @RISK and DecisionTools Suite software is compatible with all 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Microsoft Windows XP-10, Excel 2007-2013, and Project 2007-2013. 64-bit Compatible |
Home → End User Setup → Configuring Excel → Opening Palisade Software Automatically Whenever Excel Opens
Disponible en español:Apertura Del Software Palisade Automáticamente Cada vez que Inicia Excel
Disponível em português:Abrindo Software da Palisade junto com Excel
Applies to:
@RISK 5.x–8.x
Evolver 5.x–8.x
NeuralTools 5.x–8.x
PrecisionTree 5.x–8.x
RISKOptimizer 5.x only (For 6.x and newer, set @RISK to run automatically, not RISKOptimizer.)
StatTools 5.x–8.x
TopRank 5.x–8.x
There is never a requirement to add our add-ins or toolbars to Excel manually. Ordinarily, you open our software via a desktop shortcut if available, or through the start menu (All Programs or Programs and then Palisade DecisionTools). This can be done when Excel is already running, or when Excel is not running. If Excel is not running, our software will launch Excel automatically.
But some users prefer to double-click on workbooks (.XLS, .XLSX, .XLSM, etc.) to open Excel. In this case you must then start StatTools, @RISK, or our other software tools as a separate step. This article explains how to make any of our software tools open automatically, every time Excel opens. It's also possible to give this treatment to just one Excel workbook, if the workbook has macros enabled; see Setting References in Visual Basic.
Caution: If you plan on opening multiple instances of Excel, please do not configure our software to open automatically. Palisade software is not designed to run simultaneously in multiple instances of Excel, and you will get a message such as 'Object initialized twice.' (It's perfectly okay to have single instances of different Palisade applications running in the same instance of Excel, as long as they all have the same release number. It's also okay to open multiple workbooks, as opposed to multiple instances of Excel; see Using Excel During Simulation or Optimization for the difference.)
Caution: A 5.x release, a 6.x release, 7.x release, and an 8.x release can coexist on the same computer, but they must not run at the same time. If you have one version starting automatically, don't run a different version until you first remove the first version from automatic startup.
For starting @RISK (Evolver, PrecisionTree, ...) automatically with Excel, please select your release below.
With releases 6.1–6.3, 7.x, and 8.x:
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Launch the tool that you want to run automatically with Excel.
In Excel 2010, 2013, or 2016, click File » Options » Add-Ins, then at the bottom of the page select 'Manage Excel Add-Ins' and click Go.
In Excel 2007, click the round Office button, then Excel Options, then Add-Ins, then at the bottom of the page select 'Manage Excel Add-Ins' and click Go.
In Excel 2003, with Palisade releases 6.x, click Tools » Add-Ins. (Excel 2003 is not compatible with Palisade releases 7.0 and newer.)You will see your currently running Palisade add-ins listed, along with any others that you have run previously. Put check mark(s) on the one(s) that you want to open automatically.
Caution: Don't click the Browse button and go searching for add-ins; only the ones listed here are candidates.
Exception: In 6.x/7.x/8.x, RISKOptimizer is part of @RISK. If you want RISKOptimizer to start every time Excel starts, tick the box for @RISK, not RISKOptimizer.
From now on, when Excel opens, the desired Palisade tool will open automatically with it. This applies when you double-click an Excel workbook or start Excel via a program shortcut.
If you change your mind later, go back to the Add-Ins list and uncheck the ones that you no longer want to load automatically. You will still be able to load them through the desktop icon or through the Windows Start button.
With release 6.0:
The above procedure will work for Evolver 6.0, NeuralTools 6.0, PrecisionTree 6.0, StatTools 6.0, and TopRank 6.0. However, it is not recommended for @RISK 6.0. @RISK 6.0 had a problem: If the @RISK or RISKOptimizer add-in is checked as described above, @RISK may crash at the end of a simulation that uses multiple CPUs. @RISK releases 6.1.1 and later do not have the problem.
With releases 5.5.1–5.7.1:
Launch the tool that you want to run automatically with Excel.
In Excel 2010 (no newer Excels), click File » Options » Add-Ins, then at the bottom of the page select 'Manage Excel Add-Ins' and click Go.
In Excel 2007, click the round Office button, then Excel Options, then Add-Ins, then at the bottom of the page select 'Manage Excel Add-Ins' and click Go.
In Excel 2003 or below, click Tools » Add-Ins.You will see your currently running Palisade add-ins listed, along with any others that you have run previously. Put check mark(s) on the one(s) that you want to open automatically.
Caution: Don't click the Browse button and go searching for add-ins; only the ones listed here are candidates.
From now on, when Excel opens, the desired Palisade tool will open automatically with it. This applies when you double-click an Excel workbook or start Excel via a program shortcut.
Stattools For Mac Excel Spreadsheet
If you change your mind later, go back to the Add-Ins list and uncheck the ones that you no longer want to load automatically. You will still be able to load them through the desktop icon or through the Windows Start button.
With release 5.0 or 5.5.0:
Open just Excel (not @RISK).
In Excel 2007, click the round Office button, then Excel Options, then Add-Ins, then at the bottom of the page select 'Manage Excel Add-Ins' and click Go.
In Excel 2003 or below, click Tools » Add-Ins.On the Add-Ins dialog, click Browse.
In the window that opens, navigate to your @RISK installation folder. The most likely location is C:Program FilesPalisade or C:Program Files (x86)Palisade, but it's possible that the Palisade software is installed elsewhere.
Select the subfolder and double-click the add-in indicated in the table:
To open this software automatically with Excel Select this folder Double-click
this file*And the add-ins list will show Evolver 5.0 or 5.5 Evolver5 Evolver.xla Evolver for Excel 5.0 or Evolver 5.5 NeuralTools 5.0 or 5.5 NeuralTools5 NeuralTools.xla NeuralTools Add-In for Microsoft Excel or NeuralTools 5.5 PrecisionTree 5.0 or 5.5 PrecisionTree5 PTree.xla PrecisionTree 2.0 or 5.5 @RISK 5.0 or 5.5 RISK5 Risk.xla @RISK for Excel 5.0 or 5.5 RISKOptimizer 5.0 or 5.5 RISKOptimizer5 RISKOpt.xla Evolver for Excel 5.0 or RISKOptimizer 5.5 StatTools 5.0 or 5.5 StatTools5 StatTools.xla StatTools for Microsoft Excel or StatTools 5.5 TopRank 5.0 or 5.5 TopRank5 TopRank.xla Toprank or TopRank 5.5 *If you don't see the '.xla' file extension, choose the file with this name, right-click it, and select Properties. Verify that the type is Microsoft Office Excel Add-In, cancel the Properties dialog, and double-click the file. You are now back in the Add-Ins dialog, with a new entry checked, as shown in the last column of the table.
If you wish, you can browse to additional Palisade add-ins to make multiple tools open automatically with Excel. (RISKOptimizer includes Evolver, so you can't open both of them automatically with Excel.) But add only the tools that you really do use almost every time you open Excel; otherwise you will just make Excel open slower for no good purpose.
Click OK, then close Excel (File » Exit).
From now on, when Excel opens the desired Palisade tool will open automatically with it. This applies when you double-click an Excel workbook or start Excel via a program shortcut.
Stattools For Mac Excel Tutorial
If you change your mind later, go back to the Add-Ins list and uncheck the add-in that you browsed to.
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last edited: 2020-03-20