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Chapter 1: Getting Started
1.1 Using JMP Essentials
1.2 Launching JMP
1.3 JMP Menus
1.4 Elements of Using JMP
1.5 JMP Launch Dialog Windows
1.6 The Excel Add-In (Optional)
1.7 JMP Preferences
1.8 Summary
JMP was developed to help people with questions about their data get the answers that they need through the use of graphs and numerical results. For most people, memories of statistics can be a very unpleasant, if not forgotten, part of their education. If you see yourself as a new, occasional, or even reluctant user of data analysis, we want you to know that we have written this book for you.
It is important to note that throughout the historical development of statistics as a scientific discipline, people had real problems that they needed to solve and developed statistical techniques to help solve them. Statistics can be thought of as sophisticated common sense, and JMP takes a practical, commonsense approach to solving data-driven problems.
JMP was designed around the workflow of analyzing data rather than as a collection of tools only a statistician can understand. When you think about your data analysis problem, try to formulate the questions that might help you address it. For example, do you need to describe the variation in selling prices of homes in a city or understand the relationship of customer satisfaction with service waiting times? With this mindset, you will find the menus and navigation in JMP to be very compatible with the questions that you are trying to answer.
Displaying graphs (or pictures) of data is one of JMP’s strengths. For most people, an effective graph can convey more information more quickly than a table of numbers or statistics. In any JMP analysis, graphs are presented first, and then the appropriate numerical results follow. This is by design. JMP also provides a Graph menu that contains additional visualization tools that are independent of numerical results, at least initially. The goal of this chapter is to introduce you to JMP and its basic navigation. We cover the menus and windows and introduce you to the conventions used throughout the book.
1.1 Using JMP Essentials
All but one chapter in this book (Chapter 3, “Index of Graphs”) is laid out in a consistent manner to help you generate results quickly. The format of the book has been designed to be used alongside your computer where JMP is installed. After an introduction to the concept, we have designed each section to be self-contained. That is, with few exceptions, the steps required to produce a result begin and end without having to flip through several pages.
We provide numbered steps that generate the result illustrated in the figure that follows. (See Figure 1.1.)
Figure 1.1 Book Layout
| Note |
| This edition of JMP Essentials was written with JMP 15. However, the methods covered in this book are mostly basic and have not substantially changed since the earliest releases of the software. Thus, you will find most instructions contained in this book compatible with earlier and future JMP releases. |
Conventions
We are confident that, having made it this far, you know the basic terminology associated with operating a computer, including click, right-click, double-c...
