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Minitab HELP NOTES - Numeric Summaries of A Data Set: Step 1: Enter The Data

This document provides instructions for calculating and displaying descriptive statistics in Minitab. It explains how to request numeric summaries of data by entering the data, selecting descriptive statistics from the menu, and choosing the specific summaries wanted. The summaries are then displayed and include measures like mean, standard deviation, minimum, maximum, and quartiles. An example is given showing numeric summaries for salary data from a sample of students broken down by sex.

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Minitab HELP NOTES - Numeric Summaries of A Data Set: Step 1: Enter The Data

This document provides instructions for calculating and displaying descriptive statistics in Minitab. It explains how to request numeric summaries of data by entering the data, selecting descriptive statistics from the menu, and choosing the specific summaries wanted. The summaries are then displayed and include measures like mean, standard deviation, minimum, maximum, and quartiles. An example is given showing numeric summaries for salary data from a sample of students broken down by sex.

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Minitab HELP NOTES - Numeric Summaries of a Data Set

Calculating and Displaying Descriptive Statistics

Step 1: Enter the data


Enter the data set (or sets) you want to summarize into a column (or columns).

Step 2: Request a Numeric Summary

From the Minitab Menu: Stat - Basic Statistics - Display Descriptive (or Store Descriptive
if you want to save your numerical results to columns ~ rare!)
Select the Variable or Variables you want to summarize
Optional: Select a By variable if you want your numerical summaries calculated for each
value of a By variable.
Optional: Select Graphs to view (This is not a commonly used option. To request a graph, use
the Graph menu)
Click on the Statistics button and you see this dialogue:

Here is each choice explained:


1. Mean = Sample mean
2. SE of mean = Standard error of a sample mean = standard deviation divided by the
SQRT(sample size)
3. Standard deviation = Sample standard deviation
4. Variance = Sample variance
5. Coefficient of variation (C.V.) = (Sample mean / Sample standard deviation) * 100
6. Trimmed Mean = 5% Trimmed sample mean (Note: 10% of the data is trimmed; 5% of
the largest and 5% of the smallest values)
7. Sum = Sum of all the data values added together

8. Minimum = Smallest value


9. Maximum = Largest value
10. Range = Maximum minus the minimum
11. N nonmissing = Number of nonmissing data values
12. N missing = Number of missing data values (Note that missing data values are
represented by an asterisk *)
13. N total = Total number of data values
14. Cumulative N = Cumulative number of entries
15. Percent = Percent of observations of a group. The percent will be equal to 100 unless
you use a "By variable".
16. Cumulative percent = Cumulative sum of all the percentages of each group. Only
applies when you select a "By variable".
17. First quartile = 25th percentile (as called the lower quartile)
18. Third quartile = 75th percentile (as called the upper quartile)
19. Interquartile range = Q3 - Q1
20. Sum of squares = SSx = Numerator of sample variance.
21. Skewness = Measure of skew of a data set. Values less than + 0.20 indicate
approximate symmetry; values between + 0.20 and + 0.50 indicate a mild skew; values
between + 0.50 and + 1.00 indicate a strong skew; and values higher than + 1.00
indicate an extreme skew;
22. Kurtosis = Measure of how sharp a distribution is. Values close to 0 indicate normally
peaked data; negative values indicate a distribution that is flatter than normal (or
bimodal or multimodal); positive values indicate a distribution with a sharper (higher)
than normal peak.
23. MSSD = Half the mean of the squared successive differences of a batch of numbers.

Here's an example:
Suppose a random sample of n=50 students (25 male and 25 female) was selected, and one year after
graduating with a degree and finding full time employment, they were asked their annual salary:

Now calculate the following numerical summaries of the sample data:


1. Mean
2. SE of mean
3. Standard deviation
4. Variance
5. Coefficient of variation
6. Trimmed Mean (5% trimmed mean)
7. Sum
8. Minimum
9. Maximum
10. Range
11. N total
12. First quartile
13. Median
14. Third quartile
15. Interquartile range
16. Sum of squares
After selecting Stat - Basic Statistics - Display Descriptive, this is what the output would look like:

And if you wanted to summarize the data set, broken down by "Sex", you would create the following
dialogue by selecting Stat - Basic Statistics - Display Descriptive:

Your session window will output all the numeric summaries requested, broken down by "Male" and
"Female". This is a very useful comparison tool!

End of Minitab Help Notes for Graphing


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