Operation

The Operation class is used in the operations attribute of the AnalysisMethod class to define the statistical operations to be performed for any analysis that references the analysis method.

Each operation is defined as an instance of the Operation class and, in each instance:

• The id attribute contains the identifier value assigned for the operation.
• The name attribute indicates the assigned name of the operation.
• The label attribute contains a short label for the operation, such as might be shown in an output display (e.g., "n", "%", "Mean", "SD")
• The description attribute may be used record a detailed description of the operation.
• The referencedOperationRelationships attribute may be used to specify relationships to any other operations whose results are referenced in the calculation of the results for this operation, as described below.
• The resultPattern attribute contains a textual representation for the default pattern or format used for the display of the results of this operation in output displays. The pattern should indicate the precision of the value to be displayed (e.g., "X.XXX") and may include parentheses or other additional characters (e.g., "(XXX.X)" or "±XX.XX"). In general, the pattern will usually be in the format that is displayed in output table shells, but sponsors may choose to use other pattern specifications.