On Friday 16 February 2007, + Stephen Webb wrote: > To whom it may concern, > > I have been happily using OpenOffice for several years now, but recently I > have advised the students I teach (a physics lab class) to use your > software if they do not have access to Microsoft Office or whatever else > they may have. Of course, part of this lab is error analysis, but > unfortunately I cannot figure out how to add error bars to data, nor do I > know how the Spreadsheet software tabulates the error bars. > > Could you perhaps enlighten me on this subject? The Help Menu entry for > "error bars in spreadsheet" does not say anything about error bars, only > how to add a graph.
As you are not subscribed you may not have seen that: On Friday 16 February 2007, Joe Conner wrote: > At the URL > http://documentation.openoffice.org/manuals/oooauthors2/index.html is a > file called 0304CG-CreatingChartsAndGraphs.pdf which is downloadable. > On page 25 of this document are instructions for creating an X-Y graph > with error bars. I am not sure how much help this will be to you > however, as there is a comment at the bottom that states: "Note that > these error bars are calculated on the entire data series; that is, the > error bars are equal at each point of the chart." > > There is no explanation as to how the error bars are calculated. It > would be helpful if the error bars represented one standard deviation > (better yet, have the standard deviation variable by choice, maybe that > you would want to see a S.D of 5, or 2.5, or some other value). > Also note that there is a reimplementation of the charting module which may improve this. This re-implementaiton may be available as part of OOo 2.2. Please reply to [email protected] only. -- CPH : openoffice.org contributor Maybe your question has been answered already? http://user-faq.openoffice.org/#FAQ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
