Minitab® 16 Workshop

1. Minitab® 16 Workshop Presented by Arved Harding Your friendly, neighborhood statistician 

2. Outline • A few new features • Minitab® ’s Assistant • Minitab® Tutorials • Quality Trainer • Quality Companion

3. Credit where it is due. • Many slides were created by Christy Bower, a statistician at Eastman in our Applied Statistics Group.

4. 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.

5. 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.

6. Sample size for estimation • Parameters include: • Mean • Standard deviation • Variance • Proportion • Rate

7. 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 KoreanEnglishFrench GermanChineseSpanishJapanese

8. 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

9. Minitab® tutorials

10. 45 Tutorials on many topics of interest

11. 2-Sample t Minitab® tutorial

12. What kind of data is required and what the worksheet should look like.

13. As well as an example and step-by-step instructions on how to use the tool

14. Minitab® ’s Assistant

15. When you feel you’re 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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21. 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.

25. 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® Menu (assuming equal variances) Minitab® Assistant

26. 2-Sample t using Minitab® Assistant

27. Demo using Hospital Rating Data

28. Minitab® ’s Quality Trainer

30. 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)

31. Quality Trainer contents

32. 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

33. Pricing info

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37. Customize and The Dashboard

38. Questions? ?