MINITAB VERSION 13
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Highlight and
Copy the Data….
•Go to:
•Stat…
•Quality Tools…
•Pareto Chart….
•Go to:
•Graph…
•Histogram…
•Go to:
•Stat…
•Basic Statistics…
•Display Descriptive
Statistics….
•Select Graphical
Summary….
•Select OK…..
•Select OK again on
the next screen...
•Go to:
•Graph…
•Marginal Plot…
•Go to:
•Stat…
•Basic Statistics…
•Display Descriptive
Statistics...
•Select Boxplot of
data….
•Select OK…..
•Select OK again
on the next
screen...
•Go to:
•Graph…
•Plot...
To do this:
•Go to Window…
•Tile...
Go to Stat… Quality
Tools…. Capability
Analysis (Weibull)….
•Note that we get a •Here, we see the 95% •The F test results are
graphical summary of confidence intervals for the shown here. We can
both sets of data as two populations. Since they see from the P-Value of
well as the relevant overlap, we know that we will .263 that again we
statistics…. fail to reject the null would fail to reject the
hypothesis. null hypothesis. Note
that the F test assumes
normality
•Go to Stat….
•Basic Statistics…
• Paired t…..
•Select the
Boxplot for our
graphical output..
•Then select OK..
Note that you will have the critical •Minitab builds the table for you. Note
population and test statistics displayed that our original data is presented and
in the session window. directly below, Minitab calculates the
expected values.
•Here, Minitab calculates the Chi Square
statistic for each data point and totals the
result. The calculated Chi Square
statistic for this problem is 30.846.
ANOVA
•Select Stat…
•ANOVA…
•One way…
•Select
• C4 Responses
• C5 Factors
•Then select Graphs….
•Choose boxplots
of data...
•Then OK
•Choose Stat
•ANOVA
•Main Effects Plot….
Select
•C4 Response
•C5 Factors
•OK
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FUNDAMENTALS
Go to
•Stat…
•DOE…
•Factorial...
•Create Factorial
Design...
Select 2 Level
Factorial design with
3 factors
Then go to Display
Available Designs….
Go to
•Stat….
•DOE…
•Factorial...
•Analyze Factorial
Design...
•Select C8 as your
response
•Select
“Wristband”, “Ball”
and “Lane” as
your factors.
•Then select “OK”
and OK again on
the main screen.
•This plot also shows you the direction of the main effects. We clearly
see that the “with” condition is related to the higher level of performance.
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Bowling Example (continued)
•Select InteractionPlot
and then Setup…..
•Select C8 as your
response variable.
•Select “Wristband”,
“Ball” and “Lane” as
your factors.
•Then select “OK” and
OK again on the next
screen….
•We know from our earlier analysis that none of these interactions were
statistically significant for this experiment…..