MUFOS is free, easy-to-use and convenient software that allows users to apply a MUltiple tests correction to their data and get the results in a readily-understood, FOrmatted table.

Windows users

Download the installation file and simply follow the instructions on the screen. After the short installation is completed, run the MUFOS.exe file to start MUFOS.

MAC users

Download the installation archive. Then use your favourite archive tool to unzip the archive. After this is done, you can run the MUFOS .app file to start MUFOS.

Note that you might have to change your system preferences for MUFOS to allow your computer to open software for unidentified developers. More information on how to change preferences to open apps from unidentified developers can be found online.

If nothing above works and MUFOS still does not start on macOS (e.g. you have restrictions on allowing apps to be run/installed from unidentified developers), we suggest you follow the Run instructions in the README file for developers, that specify how to quickly run MUFOS from the source code directly – no programming experience is necessary.

Most of the information about using MUFOS should be contained in the Help Guide and Documentation as well as the MUFOS paper. Information for developers can be found in the README file for developers in the Source code folder in the MUFOS repository.

There are 5 core data input formats:

• raw data, in which each variable is a separate column and each row is a new value for the variable (i.e. the typical rectangular dataset);
• correlation table data, in which one column contains one variable’s name, a second column contains the other variable’s name and third and fourth columns which contain the correlation coefficients and associated p values, respectively. Each row represents an additional correlational test between variables;
• independent t-test statistics, in which there is one column for each dependent variable name, six columns that contain information about the mean, standard deviation and sample size for each group (3 statistics by 2 groups) and an optional column whether equality of variance is assumed (if this column is missing, equality of variance is assumed). Each row represents a new group comparison;
• SPSS table, which is an excel (.xlsx) file, produced by exporting a specific table from the SPSS Output window (for step-by-step instructions on how to export an SPSS table, see the MUFOS Help Guide and Documentation)
• p values table, which must contain a column of p values, with other optional columns

For each of the 11 input files, there are corresponding output files in both Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel. The output files in Excel and Word contain the same information but are styled differently.