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The Test data report

Introduction

The Test data report shows a chronological list of things that occurred during a test in a spreadsheet format - see figure 1 for an example.

Figure 1. An example of the Test data report, showing the animal's position, speed and whether or not it was in certain zones.

To access the report you should:

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Switch to the Test page.

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In the Test schedule report, shown on the left of the page, click the Test number of the test you're interested in.

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The Test details report will open. Click the

Related reports button in the ribbon bar.

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Select the Test data report from the menu which appears.

Specifying the data shown in the report

The actual data listed in the Test data report are defined as part of the protocol - full details are given in the Test data report settings topic. Full details on all the possible data options can be found here.

Details

Time

This column shows the time at which the thing occurred. Times are recorded in ANY-maze to the nearest millisecond. You can choose exactly how the times are reported using the option on the Test data report settings page of the protocol. The options include: the time since the test start in hours, minutes and seconds; the time since the test start simply as a number of seconds (this is useful if you want to export the data); the real-time (i.e. the time shown on your wristwatch) at which the thing occurred.

Data columns

The data columns shown depend on what you selected in the Test data report settings page of the protocol, but they are reasonably intuitive. Note that a 1 is used to mean a state is ON and 0 to mean it is OFF. So, for example, a column that shows whether the animal is in a certain zone will show a 1 when the animal is in the zone and a 0 when it isn't.

In some circumstances a column may show #N/A as its value. This means that the value is Not available. This is shown, for example, in the x,y coordinate columns at time zero as ANY-maze doesn't know where the animal is.

A detailed description of all the data that can be included in the report can be found here.

Each row of the report shows details for the time shown in the Time column, so in the example shown above, at time 2.76 seconds the animal was at position 279,378 moving at a speed of 0.233ms and was inside the SE zone.

Transferring data from the report to other programs

The easiest way to transfer data to other programs is simply to copy the spreadsheet (or a sub-section of it) to the Windows Clipboard and then paste the data into a program such as Excel, or SPSS. You can also save data in a variety of different formats.

For full details refer to the Copying and saving data topic. Although this describes the options for copying and saving data on the Data page the spreadsheet used in this report is the same and the options available are identical.

The Test data report

Introduction

Specifying the data shown in the report

Details

Transferring data from the report to other programs

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