#### 1.4.7 Statistical summary of data

The new ‘stats‘ command reads data from a file using the same syntax as the ‘plot‘ or ‘splot‘ commands. Rather than drawing a graph, it prints out a statistical summary of the data contained in the column[s] requested. The resulting statistics min, max, mean, standard deviation, correlation, etc. are also stored in named variables that can be used to compose or modify subsequent plotting commands. See ‘stats‘.