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Minitab

Minitab is a statistical software designed for data analysis, primarily for Six Sigma professionals, allowing users to input, manipulate data, and identify trends. Developed in 1972 at Pennsylvania State University, it features various windows for output, data entry, and graphics, along with key functionalities like basic statistics, regression, and design of experiments. The software is widely used across businesses of all sizes for effective statistical analysis.

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Minitab

Minitab is a statistical software designed for data analysis, primarily for Six Sigma professionals, allowing users to input, manipulate data, and identify trends. Developed in 1972 at Pennsylvania State University, it features various windows for output, data entry, and graphics, along with key functionalities like basic statistics, regression, and design of experiments. The software is widely used across businesses of all sizes for effective statistical analysis.

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MINITAB

Minitab is a software product that helps you to analyze the data. This is designed
essentially for the Six Sigma professionals. It provides a simple, effective way to input the
statistical data, manipulate that data, identify trends and patterns, and then extrapolate
answers to the current issues. This is most widely used software for the business of all
sizes - small, medium and large. Minitab provides a quick, effective solution for the level of
analysis required in most of the Six Sigma projects.

History
Minitab is a statistics package developed at the Pennsylvania State University by
researchers Barbara F. Ryan, Thomas A. Ryan, Jr., and Brian L. Joiner in 1972. It began as a
light version of OMNITAB 80, a statistical analysis program by NIST, which was conceived
by Joseph Hilsenrath in years 1962-1964 as OMNITAB program for IBM 7090. The
documentation for OMNITAB 80 was last published 1986.

Minitab when opened, typically has three types of windows

1. Session window: This is the topmost window, where it will show the output of your
requested statistical analysis.
2. Worksheet window: This is the bottom window, where data is copy pasted into a
worksheet.
3. Graphics window: This is the type of window which is not seen when it opens. This
comes only when, it is asked to plot something e.g. Scatterplot, histograms etc. So
this is the graphics window

Key Features of Minitab


Following are the 8 key features mentioned below:
1. Basic Statistics: This feature covers all kind of statistical tests, descriptive statistics,
correlations, and covariances.
2. Graphics: This enables users to draw various statistical graphs such as scatter plot,
histograms, boxplots, matrix plot, marginal plot, bubble chart,s etc.
3. Regression: This feature enables users to find the relationship between variables
(which is a key feature of any statistical tool). Regression is available in form of linear, non-
linear, ordinal, nominal etc.
4. Analysis of Variance: Analysis of variance i.e. ANOVA is used to analyze the difference
between the group means.

5. Statistical Process Control: This feature helps you create cause and effect diagrams,
variable control charts, multi-variate control charts, time-weighted charts, etc.
6. Measurement System Analysis: MSA is a mathematical method to determine the
amount of variation that exists within a measurement process. Variability in a process can
directly impact the overall variance of a process.
7. Design of Experimentations: This feature helps you identify the cause and effect
relationship. This helps in creating and experimenting with various designs by noting down
all its relevant outputs. This helps you on finalizing a certain method and optimizing it.
8. Reliability/Survival: It enables you to select the best distribution for modeling data. It
helps you in identifying which is the best function that best describes your data.

Procedure for Minitab


Let us see the procedure to follow for performing the basic statistics.

1. First, you need to put your data values in one of the columns of the Minitab
worksheet.
2. Put a variable name in the gray box.
3. Click on “Stat”, and then click on “Basic Statistics”, and then click on “Display
Descriptive Statistics”.
4. Choose the variable for which you want the basic statistics. Click on “Select”.
5. Click on the “Statistics” box, then check the box next to each statistic you want to
see.

6. Click on “OK” in that window, then click on “OK” in the next window.
7. The values of all the statistics you selected should appear in the Session window

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