What are the differences between the data management options accessible in every module and the Data Management module?
Most of the commonly-used data management facilities are integrated with the spreadsheet and available from the data spreadsheet in every module (either from the toolbar, pull-down menu Edit, or the flying menus). These commonly-available facilities include all spreadsheet operations on cases and variables, transposing data, data transformations through the spreadsheet formulas, the STATISTICA BASIC programming language, and the on-line recoding facilities, ranking, filling ranges, shifting, DDE, management of text values, date values, long value labels, and many other options (including direct import/export functions and import via ODBC). The Data Management module includes all of these options and additional, specialized data management facilities such as relational merge, interactive data verification and cleaning, specialized import/export facilities (e.g., allowing import/export of double notation of values to file formats which normally do not support double notation), and others
