| # Synopsis of your grid data |

You have chosen to display a synopis of your grid comprising:

- A histogram showing for each of your , the number of your assigned a particular rating;
- A scree plot of the contribution of each of the principal components and an estimate of the number of significant components.

These can be used to make a rapid assessment of whether the full range of possible ratings on each has been used in construing your , and of the complexity of construing instantiated in the grid.

## Showing a list of your Synopsis Parameters

You can show or hide a list of the parameters that control what is displayed.

Clicking on shows them, and clicking on hides them.

## Synopsis Parameters

There are five sub-sections to the Histogram Parameters panel, the top row of buttons, "Histogram" section, "Components" section, "Style" section and "Use" section.

Clicking on the "Synopsis" button causes the plot to be produced again with the new parameters.

Clicking on the "Continue" button returns to the main page.

Clicking on the "Image" button on the left displays a menu of options for preserving the current plot:

- Copy the plot in a separate window so that you can retain a copy.
- Download the plot as a scalable vector graphics (SVG) file.
- Download the plot as a PNG file at one of 3 resolutions.
- Download the plot as a JPG file at one of 3 resolutions.

  ## Histograms of Distributions

  The "Histogram" check box when checked causes histograms of the number of your assigned a particular rating to be shown.

  The "Title" check box when checked causes the plot to be titled.

  The "Numbers" check box when checked causes the numbers to be shown.

  The three radio buttons determine whether category names or numeric ratings will be used to determine the histogram bins.
  "Specified" is the "Use in plots" setting specified for a construct.
  "Numeric" or "Category" preempt this setting.

  Note that overlapping or underlapping categories may be specified so that the display is a bar graph of the count in each category rather than a true histogram if the categories specified are not complete and mutually exclusive.

  The "ScaleH" check box when checked causes the ratings or categories and any meta-values used to be shown on the horizontal scale.

  The "ScaleV" check box when checked causes the count of the number of having a particular rating to be shown on the vertical scale.

  The "Scale" text box takes up 5 numbers separated by commas.

  - Specify the width of each histogram bar, and the height of each increment, e.g. 3 or 8.
  - The width and height can also be specified separately separated by a space, e.g. 3, 2 or 4, 6.
  - Spacing may be further specified by up to three additional comma-separated numbers: verical space between histograms, horizontal space between groups of bars, horizontal space at each end of plot.
  - Default values if not specified are: 3, 3, 8, 8, 4.

  ## Scree Plot of Principal Components

  The "Scree" check box when checked causes a scree plot from a principal components analysis to be shown.

  The "Title" check box when checked causes the plot to be titled.

  The "Compare" check box when checked adds a plot of the expected random distribution, whichs allows the number of significant components to be estimated by comparison.

  The "Scales" text box takes up 4 numbers separated by spaces.

  - Specify whether each increment on the vertical scale corresponds to 1 or 2.
  - Spacing may be further specified by up to three additional comma-separated numbers: space between vertical increments, space between horizontal increments, horizontal space at each end of plot.
  - Default values if not specified are: 1, 3, 20, 10.

  The scree plot parameters are common to Synopsis and Map—changing them in one applies them to the other.

  ## Set the Style of the Plots

  The "Style" sub-section top row allows the font and font size used in the plot to be changed, and the plot to be shown without a background or in black and white.

  The next two rows enable the colors used in the plot to be specified by clicking the color swatches.

  The final row enables the identifier used in the plot title to be specified. An item may be created on the "Options" page named "ID" and used as a customized identifier for the grid, and/or some combination of the name, note, date and time may be specified. If nothing is specified the default identifier is the name followed by the note in parentheses.

  The style parameters are common to all analyses—changing them in one applies consistent changes to the others.

  ## Use Selected Items

  The "Use" sub-section specifies whether only selected and will be displayed.

  The "All" button at the top selects all and to be analyzed (equivalent to selecting all of them on the main page).

  The selection parameters are common to all analyses—changing them in one applies them to the others.