By default, the Format Wizard selects colors for highlighting cells and makes other selections for which models to import and the type of charts to produce. These selections work well for many users, but others prefer to customize these selections. This page lets you choose the options you want to employ. Topics include:
Color
for highlighted cells
Bar chart appearance
Which models to extract
Restore defaults button
To go directly to a discussion of one of these topics, double-click on an area in the image below.
As you will see in any of the tutorials, the Format Wizard applies conditional formatting in many places to aid in the interpretation of values. By default, the wizard employs the color scheme shown above, but you can change that at any time. Further, if you end your session by clicking the Finish button, your changes will automatically be saved for the next time you run the wizard. If you don't want your choices to be saved, click the Cancel button.
To change a color, move your mouse over one of the three colors, as demonstrated below.
The text for the color turns white. Left click on the color to bring up the Color Picker.
As your mouse moves from one color to the next, a sample of the color appears in the upper-right frame, and the red, green and blue (RGB) values describing the color appear underneath the corresponding label. Click on the color you want, or click the Cancel button to restore the original color for this setting.
Clicking any selection removes the Color Picker and changes the wizard's setting for the appropriate color.
Some people feel that three-dimensional charts, the wizard's default selection, excessively distort the numerical relationships the charts attempt to display. For this reason, you can choose to display two-dimensional charts. Click the radio button that matches your preference.
A number of criteria exist for evaluating latent-class models. While all have merit, the BIC criterion is commonly used to select the best model run. However, in some instances competing models generate BIC values that are very close, so experienced modelers often apply their own judgment to select the model that is most appropriate for the task at hand. The lower-right pane provides an option to download three models at once: the one with the lowest BIC along with the preceding and succeeding models. All three models are formatted in one pass, and the model with the lowest BIC is distinguished from the others by green sheet tabs. For an animated demonstration of this capability, click here.
If you would like to return to the Format Wizard's default selections for each of the above options, click the Restore defaults button.