PATN for Windows™ (PATN) is the Microsoft Windows™ version of DOS PATN, the software package developed by Lee Belbin in CSIRO over 16 years. PATN is actively used in over 40 countries for teaching and research, mainly in the field of ecology. Most ecology departments of Australia’s universities, State and Federal government agencies routinely use PATN. No other product has developed pattern analysis (now sometimes referred to as data mining)  techniques from a broad range of ecological research and applications.

PATN's pedigree means that it is idea for finding patterns in any complex, multivariate dataset. PATN has been used in a wide range of applications - marketing, sociology, socio-economics, psychology, genetics, ecology, engineering, botany, chemistry, and biology to name a few.

The users of DOS-PATN have been clamouring for years for a Windows™ version. The concept for the Windows version of PATN was developed by Lee Belbin in 1994. This concept was substantially implemented by four Griffith University students (Adam Collins, Nicole Sylvester, Troy Sadkowsky and Markus Franke), supervised by Lee Belbin, Grant Wardell-Johnson and Cameron Hurst.

The Windows version of PATN 

The core concepts that have made PATN internationally renowned and over 20 years experience by Lee Belbin across a wide range of applications have been incorporated into the Windows™ version pf PATN.  PATN is now far easier to use. Data and results can imported and exported and the 3-dimensional display is simply awesome.

In the Windows version, there is additional functionality in:

	Importing and exporting data (including ODBC input)
	Importing results from other applications and exporting results and 'recipes'
	2d and 3d plots with animation
	Data views and manipulations, transformations, standardizations, extrinsics
	Print / previews
	Pair-wise Kruskal-Wallis values
	User control of fonts, symbols and colour
	Extensive on-line help
	PATN screenshots.

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