Minitab Cookbook
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Minitab Cookbook

Isaac Newton

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Minitab Cookbook

Isaac Newton

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Minitab has been a statistical package of choice across all numerous sectors of industry including education and finance. Correctly using Minitab's statistical tools is an essential part of good decision making and allows you to achieve your targeted results, while displaying fantastic charts and a powerful analysis will also communicate your results more effectively.

"Minitab Cookbook" will take the mystery out of using Minitab and will simplify the steps to produce great results. This book will be hugely beneficial for anyone who knows what statistics or studies they want to run, but who is unsure about just what button to press or what option to select.

In this book, you will learn how to use data from different sources and will be guided through the basics of graphs as well as the basics of hypothesis tests. You will explore the use of non-linear regression, how to construct complex ANOVAs, and even delve into Multivariate statistics.

"Minitab Cookbook" is a great reference on how to create graphs, generate P-values, and how to put data in order. You will explore the basics of charts as well as into the complex depths of Factor analysis, and you will learn everything from the simplest of t-tests to the complexity of mixed model ANOVA. And finally, for all of you who want to write Macros, this book covers the use of Execs, Global, and Local Macros.

Approach

This practical cookbook covers a broad range of topics in an easy-to-understand manner. Step-by-step instructions guide you through even the most complicated of tools in Minitab.

Who this book is for

This book is great for anyone who is familiar with statistics and who wants to learn how Minitab works. Whilst you do not need to be an expert in all areas of statistics, you should understand the basics of the chapters you are interested in.

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Year
2014
ISBN
9781782170921
Edition
1

Minitab Cookbook


Table of Contents

Minitab Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Support files, eBooks, discount offers and more
Why Subscribe?
Free Access for Packt account holders
Instant Updates on New Packt Books
Preface
What this book covers
What you need for this book
Who this book is for
Conventions
Reader feedback
Customer support
Downloading the example code
Downloading the color images of this book
Errata
Piracy
Copyright
Questions
1. Worksheet, Data Management, and the Calculator
Introduction
Opening an Excel file in Minitab
Getting ready
How to do itā€¦
How it worksā€¦
There's moreā€¦
See also
Opening data from Access using ODBC
Getting ready
How to do itā€¦
How it worksā€¦
Stacking several columns together
Getting ready
How to do itā€¦
How it worksā€¦
See also
Stacking blocks of columns at the same time
Getting ready
How to do itā€¦
How it worksā€¦
See also
Transposing the columns of a worksheet
Getting ready
How to do itā€¦
How it worksā€¦
See also
Splitting a worksheet by categorical column
Getting ready
How to do itā€¦
How it worksā€¦
See also
Creating a subset of data in a new worksheet
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it worksā€¦
There's moreā€¦
See also
Extracting values from a date/time column
Getting ready
How to do itā€¦
How it worksā€¦
Calculator ā€“ basic functions
Getting ready
How to do itā€¦
How it worksā€¦
There's moreā€¦
See also
Calculator ā€“ using an if statement
Getting ready
How to do itā€¦
How it worksā€¦
There's moreā€¦
See also
Coding a numeric column to text values
Getting ready
How to do itā€¦
How it worksā€¦
There's moreā€¦
See also
Cleaning up a text column with the calculator
Getting ready
How to do itā€¦
How it worksā€¦
There's moreā€¦
2. Tables and Graphs
Introduction
Finding the Tally of a categorical column
How to do itā€¦
How it worksā€¦
See also
Building a table of descriptive statistics
How to do itā€¦
How it worksā€¦
See also
Creating Pareto charts
How to do itā€¦
How it worksā€¦
There's moreā€¦
See also
Creating bar charts of categorical data
How to do itā€¦
How it worksā€¦
There's moreā€¦
See also
Creating a bar chart with a numeric response
How to do itā€¦
How it worksā€¦
There's moreā€¦
See also
Creating a scatterplot of two variables
How to do itā€¦
How it worksā€¦
There's moreā€¦
See also
Generating a paneled boxplot
Getting ready
How to do itā€¦
How it worksā€¦
There's moreā€¦
See also
Finding the mean to a 95 percent confidence on interval plots
How to do itā€¦
How it worksā€¦
See also
Using probability plots to check the distribution of two sets of data
How to do itā€¦
How it worksā€¦
There's more
Creating a layout of graphs
Getting ready
How to do itā€¦
How it worksā€¦
There's moreā€¦
See also
Creating a time series plot
Getting ready
How to do itā€¦
How it worksā€¦
There's moreā€¦
See also
Adding a secondary axis to a time series plot
Getting ready
How to do itā€¦
How it worksā€¦
3. Basic Statistical Tools
Introduction
Producing a graphical summary of data
Getting ready
How to do itā€¦
How it worksā€¦
There's moreā€¦
See also
Checking if data follows a normal distribution
Getting ready
How to do itā€¦
How it worksā€¦
See also
Comparing the population mean to a target with a 1-Sample t-test
Getting ready
How to do itā€¦
How it worksā€¦
There's moreā€¦
See also
Using the Power and Sample Size tool for a 1-Sample t-test
Getting ready
How to do itā€¦
How it worksā€¦
See also
Using the Assistant menu for a 1-Sample t-test
Getting ready
How to do itā€¦
How it worksā€¦
See also
Looking for differences in the population means between two samples with a 2-Sample t-test
Getting ready
How to do itā€¦
How it worksā€¦
There's moreā€¦
See also
Using the Power and Sample Size tool for a 2-Sample t-test
How to do itā€¦
How it worksā€¦
Using the Assistant menu to run the 2-Sample t-test
How to do itā€¦
How it worksā€¦
See also
Finding critical t-statistics using the probability distribution plot
How to do itā€¦
How it worksā€¦
There's moreā€¦
Finding correlation between multiple variables
Getting ready
How to do itā€¦
How it worksā€¦
There's moreā€¦
See also
Using the 1 Proportion test
Getting ready
How to do itā€¦
How it worksā€¦
See also
Graphically presenting the 1 Proportion test
Getting ready
How to do itā€¦
How it worksā€¦
See also
Using the Power and Sample Size tool for a 1 Proportion test
How to do itā€¦
How it worksā€¦
See also
Testing two population proportions with the 2 Proportions test
Getting ready
How to do itā€¦
How it worksā€¦
See also
Using the Power and Samp...

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