Exercise 4: Adding column names to a table in Prism
Go to parent GraphPad Prism statistical analyses
In table Exercise2 (created in Exercise 2A):
- X-values represent temperatures in °C
- Y values represent predominant methods of disease transmission:
- Group A in a dry climate
- Group B in a humid climate
| Look at the scatter plot of the data. |
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| When you look at the navigator you see that the data that is open in the main window is highlighted in bold in the Data Tables section of the navigator (red). If you are viewing the data in the main window the name is not only highlighted in bold but also in blue. The corresponding graph (that represents the data in the table) is also highlighted in bold in the Graphs section of the navigator (green). This way you can always easily find the graph that corresponds to a certain table.
 Open the Exercise2 graph in the main window. The first time that you open a graph, the Change Graph Type window is opened automatically:
 Here you can define the type of graph you want to create. For this exercise:
 A scatter plot of the data is generated but there is no annotation: no titles on the axes, no legend.... |
Note that when you look at a graph the content of the upper toolbar is quite different than when you look at a data table !
| Add the annotation to the data table. |
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Just open the data table again in the main window and type the annotation in the column headers:
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| Look again at the scatter plot of the data. |
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Just open the graph again in the main window:
 You see that the annotation has been added to the graph too: you now have a legend and a title for the X-axis. If you also want to include a title for the Y-axis just double click the title and type a new text e.g. Predominant method of disease transmission.
 If you're finished typing just click anywhere outside the text box of the title. |
