Our introduction of data parameters means that parameters are no longer just 1 number. You often need to work with full list of values.

If we have the following parameter

$p=randnormal(50,10,30)

$p might contain the following data.

52.82, 51.09, 49.33, 47.02, 38.04, 67.23, 55.54, 51.4, … , 37.88, 45.5, 55.23, 49.21, 38.63

The inline calculator can now calculate most summary statistics

{mean($p)} will be replaced with 49.77

{iqr($p)} will be replaced with 10.55

There are a number of commands which produce summary statistics. These are discussed in our online manual.

You also have access to commands like

{sort($p)} which will sort the list in ascending order

{contains($p,50)} which will return true if $p contains the value 50

{count($p,6)} which will return the number of 6’s in $p