New Version of BaseCow and News

[Dr David Galligan]

News: A BaseCow user group has been formed. This Group will use emails
to enhance the utility of the BaseCow program in Excel.

To join this user group please send an email to gall...@vet.upenn.edu

A new version of BaseCow has been developed that include Menu Commands.
A menu call name called BaseCow is added to the Excel Menu. Commands
under this menu include:

Survival: This command will calculate the aggregate survival rate for
data entered in a column with the first column being the time to event
(or time to censoring) and the
second column consisting of a "1" to indicate that the event has
occured and a "0" to indicate that is has not occured (censored).

Statistical Process Control (SPC): This command will evaluate a row or
column of data and apply basic SPC rule to the data. Abberrant finding
will be indicated by a change in color format of the cell. A note is
added recording which rule has been violated.

Graphs: Tornado. This command creates a Tornado graph for a speadsheet
model.
Basically it is a form of simple sensitivity analysis. Basically, a
cell of interest is identified, the drivers of these cells including,
with their names, minimums, maximums. The graph then looks at varying
these drivers over their respective ranges.