A Consultation System for Statistical Analysis on Hypertool

In this paper, we describe a statistical consultation system supporting non statisticians. There are many kinds of statistical software, but most of them require the knowledge and experience of statistics. So, developments of a consultation system with knowledge of data analyses are expected by many users.The semantic network is one representation model of the knowledge. This model is effective for the hierarchical knowledge and easy to modify. The hypertool has the same structure of semantic network.We treat the consultation system based on hypertool. This system is extensible and has the advantage of adding/modifying statistical knowledge.