Experimental Design File

This subcategory contains processes for creating and modifying an Experimental Design File (EDF).

Creation

There are three choices for EDF creation:

Process	Choose this process for creating an EDF from...
Create a Design Data Set from an Existing Data Set	An existing SAS data set
Create Design File Template	Scratch, using only raw data files
Create a Design File from MiniML	A MiniML file

Modification and Verification

Once the EDF is created (or a file containing EDF data is located), four tools exist for modifying and checking the file:.

Process	Choose this process for...
Parse a Column	Extracting data from one column into many
Create Array Index	Creating a unique index for rows based on array information contained in other rows
Create ColumnName	Concatenating and inserting data from multiple columns into one
Check File Names	Ensuring that all files listed in the EDF can be found in a specified folder

See Import for other subcategories.