Antonak R F
Department of Teaching Specialties, University of North Carolina, Charlotte 28223.
Res Dev Disabil. 1990;11(4):411-9. doi: 10.1016/0891-4222(90)90026-5.
While this product is clearly unique, its usefulness to individuals outside small business environments is somewhat limited. FlexiGraphs is, however, a reasonable first attempt to design a microcomputer software package that controls data through interactive editing within a graph. Although the graphics capabilities of mainframe programs such as MINITAB (Ryan, Joiner, & Ryan, 1981) and the graphic manipulations available through exploratory data analysis (e.g., Velleman & Hoaglin, 1981) will not be surpassed anytime soon by this program, a researcher may want to add this program to a software library containing other Macintosh statistics, drawing, and graphics programs if only to obtain the easy-to-obtain curve fitting and line smoothing options. I welcome the opportunity to review the enhanced "scientific" version of FlexiGraphs that the author of the program indicates is currently under development. An MS-DOS version of the program should be available within the year.
虽然该产品显然独具特色，但对于小型企业环境之外的个人而言，其用途颇为有限。然而，FlexiGraphs是设计一款通过图形内交互式编辑来控制数据的微型计算机软件包的一次合理的初步尝试。尽管诸如MINITAB（Ryan、Joiner和Ryan，1981年）等大型机程序的图形功能以及通过探索性数据分析可进行的图形操作（例如，Velleman和Hoaglin，1981年）短期内不会被该程序超越，但研究人员可能仍希望将此程序添加到包含其他Macintosh统计、绘图和图形程序的软件库中，哪怕只是为了获得易于实现的曲线拟合和线条平滑选项。我期待有机会审阅该程序作者表示正在开发的增强版“科学”FlexiGraphs。该程序的MS - DOS版本应会在年内推出。
