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Command Reference

JudgeIt treats commands entered in UPPER, lower, or MiXeD case in the same manner, so case is not significant. The following key describes terminology and symbols used below.

{a b c}

Brackets indicating that you must enter exactly one item in the list within

[a b c]

Brackets indicating that items within are optional for at least some purposes

filename

Represents a filename, specified with optional drive and path. For example, c:$\backslash$data$\backslash$output.out or file.txt

dataset

Represents the name of a gauss dataset that you previously created. It should have no extension specified (even though it refers to the two files on your disk with extensions ``.DAT'' and ``.DHT''). For example, c:$\backslash$data$\backslash$cong90 or data88

var

A variable name in a Gauss dataset

num

A nonnegative integer

val

A number between 0 and 1, inclusive

@

Anything surrounded by these is ignored @

;

Must end every command

In the descriptions below, we assume you have coded your vote proportion variables as Democratic proportion of the two-party vote. Switching from the Democratic to the Republican proportion of the two-party vote only changes the sign of most statistics (from positive to negative or vice versa), so the choice has no substantive consequence. However, consistently using one or the other does simplify our discussion.