After the loading screen Volume 4's contents offer mean and
standard deviation calculations (useful to researchers - but
available on so many calculators) and zeroes of functions. The
latter calculates the roots of any function, defined as 'f(x)=0'
using the one point Newton-Raphson iterative method. The
function, in terms of x, is entered with the first derivative of the
function and a root estimate and the program will then find the nearest
root to that estimate.
Linear regression and numerical integration (also in Pack 2) are included
in Volume 5. The former utilises the curve of y=m times x+b, where m=slope
and b=xy intercept. Number of pairs of data points, wether to weight y
terms, first x, first y, second x and second y are entered before the
results as m, b, sigma b and a correlation appear. Entering the integrand,
number of sub intervals, lower and upper limits of integration in Numberical
Integration causes "thinking" to appear on screen, followed by the solution.
If error reports appear, entering RUN 5 will return you to the Contents, as
will pressing 'r' whenever a green 'r' appears screen top right.
4th September 1984
