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Limiting the data analysed in a report

In brief

In the list shown on the report's settings page, you can optionally select limits to the data that will be included in the report. The list is divided into groups, and you should click a group title to view the entries inside it.

To impose a limit, tick one or more items - the report will only include those tests which match the limits you impose.

Details

In some reports, you may not wish to analyse all the tests performed in the experiment. For example, imagine an experiment in which you trained animals to perform some task. You then treated the animals and you want to compare their post-treatment performance in the task between various treatment groups. In this case, you wouldn't want to include analysis of all the training trials in your results.

To impose limits on what's included in a report, you simply need to select items in the list of Results to plot. This list shows items in groups, such as Trial, and by clicking the group title, you can actually select individual items. For Trial, for example, the items might be 'Training trial 1', 'Training trial 2', 'Training trial 3' and 'Test trial'. If these were the entries for the example I described above, then you'd want to select just the 'Test trial' entry, which you'd do by clicking the box next to it.

You can select more than one item in a group; for example, selecting 'Training trial 1' and 'Training trial 2' would limit the tests in the report to those in Training trial 1 or Training trial 2. You can also make selections in different groups; for example, under Trial you might select 'Test trial' and under Test day of the week you might select 'Wednesday'. This would limit the report to Test trials performed on Wednesday - I'm sure you get the idea.

As you'd expect, if you make no selections at all then ALL the tests in the experiment will be included in the report's analysis.

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