1INTRODUCTIONTOMINITABVERSION13•WorksheetConventionsandMenuStructures•MinitabInteroperability•GraphicCapabilities•Pareto•Histogram•BoxPlot•ScatterPlot•StatisticalCapabilities•CapabilityAnalysis•HypothesisTest•ContingencyTables•ANOVA•DesignofExperiments(DOE)MinitabTrainingAgendaWorksheetFormatandStructureSessionWindowWorksheetDataWindowMenuBarToolBarTextColumnC1-T(Designatedby-T)NumericColumnC3(NoAdditionalDesignation)DataWindowColumnConventionsDateColumnC2-D(Designatedby-D)ColumnNames(Type,Date,Count&AmountEnteredDataforDataRows1through4DataEntryArrowDataRowsOtherDataWindowConventionsMenuBar-MenuConventionsHotKeyAvailable(Ctrl-S)SubmenuAvailable(…attheendofselection)MenuBar-FileMenuKeyFunctions•WorksheetFileManagementSavePrintDataImportMenuBar-EditMenuKeyFunctions•WorksheetFileEditsSelectDeleteCopyPasteDynamicLinksMenuBar-ManipMenuKeyFunctions•DataManipulationSubset/SplitSortRankRowDataManipulationColumnDataManipulationMenuBar-CalcMenuKeyFunctions•CalculationCapabilitiesColumnCalculationsColumn/RowStatisticsDataStandardizationDataExtractionDataGenerationMenuBar-StatMenuKeyFunctions•AdvancedStatisticalToolsandGraphsHypothesisTestsRegressionDesignofExperimentsControlChartsReliabilityTestingMenuBar-GraphMenuKeyFunctions•DataPlottingCapabilitiesScatterPlotTrendPlotBoxPlotContour/3DplottingDotPlotsProbabilityPlotsStem&LeafPlotsMenuBar-DataWindowEditorMenuKeyFunctions•AdvancedEditandDisplayOptionsDataBrushingColumnSettingsColumnInsertion/MovesCellInsertionWorksheetSettingsNote:TheEditorSelectionisContextSensitive.Menuselectionswillvaryfor:•DataWindow•Graph•SessionWindowDependingonwhichisselected.MenuBar-SessionWindowEditorMenuKeyFunctions•AdvancedEditandDisplayOptionsFontConnectivitySettingsMenuBar-GraphWindowEditorMenuKeyFunctions•AdvancedEditandDisplayOptionsBrushingGraphManipulationColorsOrientationFontMenuBar-WindowMenuKeyFunctions•AdvancedWindowDisplayOptionsWindowManagement/DisplayToolbarManipulation/DisplayMenuBar-HelpMenuKeyFunctions•HelpandTutorialsSubjectSearchesStatguideMultipleTutorialsMinitabontheWeb18MINITABINTEROPERABILITYMinitabInteroperabilityExcelMinitabPowerPointStartingwithExcel...Loadfile“Sample1”inExcel….StartingwithExcel...ThedataisnowloadedintoExcel….StartingwithExcel...HighlightandCopytheData….MovetoMinitab...OpenMinitabandselectthecolumnyouwanttopastethedatainto….MovetoMinitab...SelectPastefromthemenuandthedatawillbeinsertedintotheMinitabWorksheet….UseMinitabtodotheAnalysis...LetssaythatwewouldliketotestcorrelationbetweenthePredictedWorkloadandtheactualworkload….•SelectStat…Regression….FittedLinePlot…..UseMinitabtodotheAnalysis...Minitabisnowaskingforustoidentifythecolumnswiththeappropriatedate….•Clickintheboxfor“Response(Y):Notethatouroptionsnowappearinthisbox.•Select“ActualWorkload”andhittheselectbutton…..•Thiswillenterthe“ActualWorkload”dataintheResponse(Y)datafield...UseMinitabtodotheAnalysis...•NowclickinthePredictor(X):box….Thenclickon“PredictedWorkload”andhittheselectbutton…Thiswillfillinthe“Predictor(X):”datafield...•Bothdatafieldsshouldnowbefilled….•SelectOK...UseMinitabtodotheAnalysis...•Minitabnowdoestheanalysisandpresentstheresults...•NotethatinthiscasethereisagraphandananalysissummaryintheSessionWindow…•Let’ssaywewanttousebothinourPowerPointpresentation….TransferringtheAnalysis...•Let’stakecareofthegraphfirst….•GotoEdit….CopyGraph...TransferringtheAnalysis...•OpenPowerPointandselectablankslide….•GotoEdit….PasteSpecial...TransferringtheAnalysis...•Select“Picture(EnhancedMetafile)…Thiswillgiveyouthebestgraphicswiththeleastamountoftrouble.TransferringtheAnalysis...•OurMinitabgraphisnowpastedintothepowerpointpresentation….Wecannowsizeandpositionitaccordingly….TransferringtheAnalysis...•NowwecancopytheanalysisfromtheSessionwindow…..•Highlightthetextyouwanttocopy….•SelectEdit…..Copy…..TransferringtheAnalysis...•Nowgobacktoyourpowerpointpresentation…..•SelectEdit…..Paste…..TransferringtheAnalysis...•Wellwegotourdata,butitisabitlarge…..•Reducethefontto12andweshouldbeok…..Presentingtheresults....•Nowallweneedtodoistunethepresentation…..•Herewepositionthegraphandsummaryandputintheappropriatetakeaway...•Thenwearereadytopresent….37GraphicCapabilitiesParetoChart....•Let’sgenerateaParetoChartfromasetofdata….•GotoFile…OpenProject….LoadthefilePareto.mpj….•Nowlet’sgeneratetheParetoChart...ParetoChart....•Goto:•Stat…•QualityTools…•ParetoChart….ParetoChart....Filloutthescreenasfollows:•OurdataisalreadysummarizedsowewillusetheChartDefectstable...•Labelsin“Category”…•Frequenciesin“Quantity”….•AddtitleandhitOK..ParetoChart....MinitabnowcompletesourparetoforusreadytobecopiedandpastedintoyourPowerPointpresentation….Histogram....•Let’sgenerateaHistogramfromasetofdata….•GotoFile…OpenProject….Loadthefile2_Correlation.mpj….•Nowlet’sgeneratetheHistogramoftheGPAresults...Histogram....•Goto:•Graph…•Histogram…Histogram....Filloutthescreenasfollows:•SelectGPAforourXvalueGraphVariable•HitOK…..Histogram....Minitabnowcompletesourhistogramforusreadytobecopiedandpa