Example B

TITLE=Simple Example Using Attributes (Frog Data)
SUBTITLE=Using averages of 77 observer's estimates of 13 attributes for 8 breeds. (Press F4 to see data file.)

NOBJECTS=8
NATTRIBUTES=13
ATTRIBUTELIST
6.04 7.01 6.44 9.91 NA   9.49 9.99 7.77 8.93 7.73 8.99 7.84 9.95
7.90 6.54 6.51 9.36 6.09 9.25 8.72 8.59 8.44 6.80 8.56 8.57 6.97
8.84 6.40 6.85 9.98 5.93 9.92 9.34 9.66 9.43 6.06 9.28 9.41 6.96
7.03 6.40 6.31 8.33 6.51 NA   7.80 7.53 7.47 7.53 8.14 7.42 8.62
8.21 6.53 6.87 7.91 5.55 7.86 7.85 8.10 8.06 6.25 7.43 NA   5.55
8.45 6.78 6.98 8.70 5.93 8.92 8.53 8.85 8.50 6.22 8.35 8.59 6.10
8.34 6.37 6.43 8.32 5.55 8.18 7.88 8.29 8.12 6.22 7.71 8.24 6.33
8.05 6.45 NA   7.37 5.71 7.81 7.64 7.61 7.29 6.33 7.43 7.83 6.24

This is a simple PERMAP data file based on attribute data.
Comments in the data file are ignored and everything is considered
to be a comment unless it announced by a keyword.  A keyword is
recognized only if it is the first word on a line.  In this file there
are five keywords, two of which are optional.  The keywords are shown in all
caps.  The 'title' keywords are the optional ones.  They serve only  
to transfer information to the MDS map.  Keywords do not need to 
be capitalized but doing so can improve file readability.

Permap reads only text files so if this data set came from an Excel file 
it would have been saved as a text file.  Simple text files have no 
formatting and are usually denoted as being txt, csv, ANSI, or ASCII files.  

Teaching: After making your analysis, which attribute is least
helpful in explaining the data?  Should any others be eliminated? 
Which attributes could be combined to form new constructs?    
What is strange about this data?  Hint: Look at the means.
Would looking at the standard deviations help?

Trivia: PERMAP recognizes many alternate forms of keywords.  This is 
for compatibility with other MDS program.  For instance, the above keywords TITLE
and SUBTITLE could be replaced with MESSAGE and SUBMESSAGE.  
Note that this paragraph does not let the words MESSAGE, SUBMESSAGE, TITLE, 
or SUBTITLE start a line.  If they did PERMAP would replace the title
information from the top of the file with some words from this paragraph.  
The last encountered keyword that starts a line is the one that controls.
