Overview

ANY-maze can present experiment results as text reports, graphs or track plots and can analyse results using more than thirty built in statistical tests. What's more it can perform analysis both between and within tests - so you can easily see how behaviour changes across time.
 
 

What does ANY-maze analyse?

ANY-maze includes almost 100 standard measures covering such things as distance, speed, mobility, zone entries, times in zones, latencies to events, event counts, event frequencies, etc.
Many measures are calculated individually for each zone, and you can also use calculations to derive new measures from the standard ones - so the full list of measures is almost endless.
You'll find full details about the base measures in the following pages which have been taken directly from the ANY-maze reference:

• Apparatus measures
• Zone measures
• Sequence measures
• Key measures
• Input switch measures

Text reports

ANY-maze presents the results of experiments in a clear, collated format, with animals grouped by parameters you choose - for example, treatment, sex, age, etc. And using ANY-maze's web-like design it's easy to drill down from a results report to view an individual animal's or test's results.

Graphs

ANY-maze can present results as column or line graphs, including multiple series if required, or as scatter plots. As with all reports in ANY-maze you can choose exactly what you want analysed and how you want it displayed. For example, it's simple to limit analysis to a certain group, or groups, of animals or tests.

Statistical analysis

Beyond simply showing you means and deviations for groups of animals ANY-maze lets you perform full statistical analysis of your results using more than 30 built in parametric and non-parametric tests.
Here are some of them:

• t-test - including paired sample t-test.
• ANOVA - 1 or 2 way with or without repeated measures. Handles unequal sample sizes using regression techniques (Type III sums of squares).
• For nominal data - Fisher exact test, McNemar test, Cochran Q test, Contingency table analysis.
• Non-parametric tests - Mann Whitney U test, Wilcoxon test, Kruskal Wallis test (including 2 way version), Friedman's test.
• For post-hoc analysis - Dunnett test for comparison to control, Tukey, SNK, Duncan, Fisher LSD, Scheffé, Bonferroni, Sidak.
• For non-parametric post-hoc analysis - Dunn test and SNK-type and Tukey-type tests.

Track plots

Track plots provide a highly visual, although admittedly subjective, way to view your results. They're a great way to grab people's attention!

Copying and saving reports

All reports, including graphs and track plots, can easily be copied to the Windows clipboard and pasted directly into programs like Microsoft Word - all the formatting is retained and graphics can even be resized.

You can also save reports as Word documents, Web pages or ASCII text. Graphics, such as graphs and track plots, can also be saved individually as GIF, JPG or BMP files.

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