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An introduction to results reports

Introduction

In many experiments, before you even start testing, you will know exactly what results you will want reported - for example, in a plusmaze you would probably want to know, at least:

Of course, you could easily use the Results page to analyse each of these measures in each plusmaze experiment you perform. However, a more efficient method would be to define a report which performs this analysis as part of the 'plusmaze' protocol. This would mean that for any plusmaze experiment, you would be able to instantly view these results without having to select the appropriate measures, report type, options, etc. each time.

Defining a report in the protocol doesn't prevent you from using the Results page to perform additional analysis of your data; rather, it just makes it easy to access 'standard' results that you think you'll always want to see. Of course, if in your protocol there isn't such a group of 'standard' results, then you simply don't need to include any results reports at all.

To actually define a results report in the protocol, you first have to add a report element to the protocol and then add any number of report sections to it. Each section will show the results for a measure, or group of measures, in a particular format.

For example, in a plusmaze protocol, you might create a report which consists of two sections: The first showing a graph of 'Percentage of time in the open arms' for each treatment group, and the second showing an Analysis of variance of the same data - as is shown in figure 1.

Figure 1. A results report containing a graph and a statistics section - the report could include any number of additional sections to show other measures or formats.

Of course, you would probably want to include other measures in this report, but I'm sure you get the idea.

Having defined a report in your protocol, you'll find that it appears in a drop-down list labelled Stored reports in the ribbon bar of the Results page - see figure 2. Simply selecting an item from the list displays the appropriate report, which can then be viewed, printed, copied, saved, or even sent by e-mail.

Figure 2. Once defined, a results report is created by selecting its entry from the list of stored reports that's shown in the ribbon bar at the top of the Results page.

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