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Screensize: 640 x 480 800 x 600 1024 x 768 1280 x 1024 UserName: Password: Anti-Spam Code: Format Mode: Basic  Help  Prompt  Format: Font Andale Mono Arial Arial Black Book Antiqua Century Gothic Comic Sans MS Courier New Georgia Impact Lucida Console Script MT Bold Stencil Tahoma Times New Roman Trebuchet MS Verdana   Size 1 2 3 4 5 6   Color Black Red Yellow Pink Green Orange Purple Blue Beige Brown Teal Navy Maroon LimeGreen Message: * HTML is OFF * Forum Code is ON Smilies [quote][i]Originally posted by coll@inia.[/i] [br]Origin Ver8.5. and Service Release (Select Help-->About Origin): Operating System:win7 I am trying to make means and sd from several rows (data in col11) in a column according to a common name in another column (col7) by using the following script: for(jj=2; jj<=10; jj++) { if(col(7)[jj]$==col(7)[jj+1]$) {kk = kk + 1;} else {repes = kk; ini = jj - repes + 1; fin = jj; //mean-sd calculation range gen = [Data1]Sheet1!col(11)[$(ini):$(fin)]; sum(gen); col(12)[$(ini):$(fin)]=sum.mean; col(13)[$(ini):$(fin)]=sum.sd; kk = 1; } // end if } //end for However, I keep getting the following answer (see it down) for the mean-sd calculation, no matter what I do. I guess has something to do with string to numeric value conversion, however it does not take the ini/fin variables without any $(). Invalid dataset index: 2:3 Invalid dataset index: 2:3 Invalid dataset index: 4:6 Invalid dataset index: 4:6 Invalid dataset index: 7:10 Invalid dataset index: 7:10 [/quote]   Check here to include your profile signature. Check here to subscribe to this topic.