# StatPrism User Guide

**StatPrism** is a desktop application for analysing survey and questionnaire data and
turning it into publication-ready tables and figures. It is built for researchers and
students who want correct statistics and clean, APA-style output **without writing code**.

```{figure} _static/img/hero.png
:alt: StatPrism with a finished analysis — tables and a figure
:width: 100%
```

:::{admonition} Project links
:class: seealso

- **Website:** <https://www.yakovkinii.com/stat_prism/>
- **Source code (GitHub):** <https://github.com/yakovkinii/stat_prism>
- **Downloads & releases:** <https://github.com/yakovkinii/stat_prism/releases>
:::

A typical session follows one straight path:

1. **Import** a response export (for example, a Google Forms spreadsheet).
2. **Clean and reshape** the data with point-and-click processing steps.
3. **Analyse** it — descriptives, correlations, group comparisons, regression, reliability,
   factor analysis, and more.
4. **Copy or export** the results straight into a Word document or a report file.

This guide walks through each of those stages. If you are new, start with
{doc}`getting-started` and then follow the {doc}`worked-example`.

```{toctree}
:maxdepth: 2
:caption: Getting started

installation
getting-started
importing-data
```

```{toctree}
:maxdepth: 2
:caption: Preparing data

data-processing/index
```

```{toctree}
:maxdepth: 2
:caption: Analysing data

analyses/index
```

```{toctree}
:maxdepth: 2
:caption: Output & projects

results-and-export
projects-and-settings
```

```{toctree}
:maxdepth: 2
:caption: Reference

worked-example
faq
glossary
citing
```

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```{note}
StatPrism is open source. Found a problem or have a suggestion? Open an issue on the
[project's GitHub repository](https://github.com/yakovkinii/stat_prism).
```