Minitab 16

Workshop
Presented by Arved Harding
Your friendly, neighborhood statistician

Outline
A few new features
Minitab s Assistant
Minitab Tutorials
Quality Trainer
Quality Companion
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Credit where it is due.
Many slides were created by Christy Bower, a statistician
at Eastman in our Applied Statistics Group.
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A few new features Quality People might like
Gage R&R Study (Expanded) Include additional factors,
analyze studies that are balanced or unbalanced, specify if
factors are fixed or random, and more.
Compare two capability analyses to see if the process has
improved.
General Regression Easily specify interaction and
polynomial terms, compute confidence intervals for regression
coefficients, and more.
Export to PowerPoint and Word Directly export your graphs
and Session window output for easy reporting.
Nonlinear Regression Model non-linear relationships
between variables.
Power and Sample Size Use seven new tools to calculate
power and sample size.

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More power and sample size options
Minitab provides power, sample size, and difference (effect)
calculations for the following procedures:
one-sample Z
one-sample t
two-sample t
paired t
one variance test
two variances test
one-sample proportion
two-sample proportion
one-sample Poisson rate
two-sample Poisson rate
one-way analysis of variance
two-level factorial designs
Plackett-Burman designs
General Full Factorial designs

You can also estimate the sample size you need to obtain a specific
margin of error using Sample Size for Estimation.
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Sample size for estimation
Parameters include:
Mean
Standard deviation
Variance
Proportion
Rate
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7 Languages
In addition to all the stuff we know about you can have Minitab in a language other
than English if you prefer.
Under Tools>Options you can change the language
Korean English French
German Chinese Spanish Japanese

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Resources for Minitab 16
Minitab Tutorials (45 topics)
Provides detailed descriptions and examples
Uses for the given tool or analysis
Required data for the analysis
How to complete the analysis in Minitab

Minitab Assistant
Interactive step-by-step guide to completing common data analyses in
Minitab
Provides ready-made reports
Report card of analysis assumptions
Diagnostic reports for evaluating outliers and stability
Summary report of the analysis

Quality Trainer
E-learning course with hands-on exercises and quizzes

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Minitab tutorials
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45 Tutorials on many topics of
interest
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2-Sample t Minitab tutorial
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What kind of data is required and
what the worksheet should look like.
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As well as an example and step-by-step
instructions on how to use the tool
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Minitab s Assistant
When you feel youre beyond help, consider
Minitab Assistant
Minitab has chosen a specific set of platforms to
add in Assistant targeted to help Six Sigma belts
get their analyses done more efficiently.
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Check this out
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Output is much nicer
Typical output is a 3-4 page report. Each page can be copied
as a graphic to Word or PowerPoint with a right click.

Such as this 3 page report from a 2-sample t-test.
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Data
Unusual There are no unusual data points. Unusual data can have a strong influence on the results.
Normality
checked with small samples, you should use caution when interpreting the test results.
distributed, the p-value may be inaccurate with small samples. Because normality cannot be reliably
Because the sample size of A is less than 15, normality can be an issue. If the data are not normally
Size
Sample The sample is sufficient to detect a difference between the means.
Check Status Description
2-Sample t Test for the Mean of A and B
Report Card
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12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
120
80
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17 15 13 11 9 7 5 3 1
you would have a 90% chance.
chance of detecting the difference. If they differed by 17.074,
If the true means differed by 11.652, you would have a 60%
For alpha = 0.05 and sample sizes = 12, 17:
100%
17.074
90%
11.652
60% < 40%
Data in Worksheet Order
Investigate outliers (marked in red).
11.652 60.0
13.081 70.0
14.754 80.0
17.074 90.0

Difference Power
sample sizes of 12 and 17?
What difference can you detect with your
A B
Power
What is the chance of detecting a difference?
sample sizes.
Power is a function of the sample sizes and the standard deviations. To detect a difference smaller than 14.754, consider increasing the
2-Sample t Test for the Mean of A and B
Diagnostic Report
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100 80 60 40
A
B
(p < 0.05).
The mean of A is significantly different from the mean of B
> 0.5 0.1 0.05 0
No Yes
P = 0.004
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results of the test.
samples. Look for unusual data before interpreting the
-- Distribution of Data: Compare the location and means of
that the true difference is between 5.6046 and 26.474.
the difference from sample data. You can be 95% confident
-- CI: Quantifies the uncertainty associated with estimating
level of significance.
-- Test: You can conclude that the means differ at the 0.05
Sample size 12 17
Mean 78.333 62.294
95% CI (71.27, 85.40) (53.958, 70.630)
Standard deviation 11.122 16.213

Statistics A B
16.039
(5.6046, 26.474)
Distribution of Data
Compare the data and means of the samples.
Do the means differ?
95% CI for the Difference
Does the interval include zero?
Difference between means*
95% CI
* The difference is defined as A - B.
Comments
2-Sample t Test for the Mean of A and B
Summary Report
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A warning about using Minitab Assistant
Minitab has tried to make these platforms as simple and
easy to use as they could. In doing so, sometimes they
took a slightly different statistical approach than the
traditional one. So the p-values may not always match up
exactly.

Minitab Assistant
Minitab Menu
(assuming equal variances)
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2-Sample t using Minitab Assistant
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Demo using Hospital Rating Data
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Minitab s Quality Trainer
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Quality Trainer
Interactive guide to review specific statistical topics

Learn at your own pace

Test your knowledge with exercises and quizzes

Certificate of completion for certification credits is
available from Minitab upon completion of all material
and quizzes (approximately 20 hours of training)
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Quality Trainer contents
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Links to more information
For a complete description of the new features see:
http://www.Minitab .com/en-US/products/Minitab /whats-new.aspx

See the link below for access to a Minitab 16 tour, webinars
and more. http://www.Minitab .com/en-US/products/Minitab
/launch.aspx

For prerecorded webinars see http://www.Minitab .com/en-
US/theater/default.aspx

To learn what statistical techniques Minitab assistant uses in each
platform and why a detailed white paper has been written, go to
http://www.Minitab .com/en-
US/support/answers/answer.aspx?id=2613

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Pricing info
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Organize
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Execute
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Customize and The Dashboard
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Questions?

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