Welcome to Minitab 17 !

1. Welcometo Minitab 17! Minitab 17 offers numerous new features and enhancements including improvements to: • The Assistant • Regression and GLM • DOE • And more…

2. Top Enhancements The Assistant

3. Making Data Analysis Even Easier • Over the years, customers have told us: “The dialogs are too technical” “I don’t know which tool to use” “Minitab has too many options” “I need help interpreting my results”

4. Designed for Green/Black Belts, occasional users, and those who are new to statistics or Minitab

5. Assistant for DOE • DOE easier than ever • Most requested Assistant feature 6-15 factors 2-5 factors 2

6. What value does it provide? • Customers are already using DOE in core Minitab • However, users really struggle with DOE: • Choosing the appropriate design • Analyzing the data is not always straightforward • Easier for our users to: • Plan and create experiments • Analyze the data • Conduct residuals analysis • Find optimal settings

7. Assistant for Multiple Regression

8. What value does it provide? • Regression is used everywhere • Customers liked Minitab 16 Assistant, but only for 1X • Easier for our users to: • Find significant factors • Conduct residuals analysis • Identify outliers • Find optimal settings

9. Improved Graphical Analysis Easier Dialogs + More Extensive Output

10. What value does it provide? • Better dialogs – e.g. shows categorical samples • Diagnostic reports with guidance • Report card with next steps

11. Top Enhancements Regression & GLM

13. What value does it provide? • CONSISTENCY across regression and GLM • Better workflow (e.g. stepwise > model fitting), plus new model dialog and “view model” • More statistical features: • Automatic model selection • Prediction • And more! • More graphical features • Factorial, contour and surface plots plus response optimizer

14. Binary Fitted Line Plot + other graphs

15. Top Enhancements Design of Experiments

16. Automatic model selection

17. Response Optimizer for General Factorial Designs (>2 levels)

18. Response Surface with Categorical Factors

19. DOE dialog changes • Alpha moved from Graphs to Options, called “Confidence level” • Box-Cox for Factorial and RS • Effects, main effects and interaction plots display all terms, includes excluded terms • Cube plots of fitted values available for reduced models • Response optimizer changes: • Factorial allows for constraints • Doesn’t require min/max value • Only displays composite desirability for >1 X • Provides CI and PI tables

20. Additional Features Additional Features

21. Assistant • Stacked data option for 2-sample tests • Chi-Square Goodness-of-Fit up to 12 levels (from 6) • Capability analysis for unequal subgroup sizes • Before/after control charts, plus Laney charts • And more… • Bubble Plots • Graph multiple variables in a 2D space

22. Outlier Tests • Grubbs’ and Dixon’s • Poisson Regression • Model count data (Y), typically low counts/rare events • Examples: number of machine failures, C-sections

23. f (x) = y Poisson Regression • Practical application In 1898, Ladislaus Bortkiewicz’s investigation of the number of Prussian army soldiers killed by horse kicks • Example Residents in rural Tanzania are being attacked by lions, frequently resulting in severe injury and death

24. Y Lunar Cycle Days Xs Above/Below Horizon

25. Equivalence Tests to determine if mean(s) are similar enough to be considered equivalent

26. Stability Studies • Pharmaceuticals • Determine shelf-life

27. One-Way ANOVA • Stacked and unstacked all-in-one menu • Welch’s method • For unequal variances • First introduced in Minitab 16 Assistant • Comparisons graphs • Games-Howell comparisons method for unequal variances

28. C2 Chi-Square Tests • Chi-Square Test for Association • No longer “Two-Way Table…” • Raw or summarized data for 2-way tables • Can specify Session labels for 2-way tables • Cross Tab and Chi-Square • Raw or summarized/table data • McNemar’s Test for 2x2 paired proportions

29. Round date/time • Updated graph style and symbols • New colors and fonts • Updated worksheet font and column formula/model symbols, plus ‘Missing’ indicator for text columns • Minitab in Portuguese • Plus English, French, Spanish, German, Simplified Chinese, Korean and Japanese (8 languages)

30. Additional Features Details to Note

31. Tooltips for all menus • Graphs no longer editable in Word or PowerPoint • EDA menu no longer displayed by default • New hypothesis test dialogs and output symbols • Unstacked data option for Test for Equal Variances • 2 Variances – graphical output, Bonett’s • Correlation – added Spearman’s • Balanced & General MANOVA combined into 1 dialog • Manage Profiles includes DMAIC (Assistant)

32. Gage R&R default alpha for part*operator = 0.05 • Control Charts default stdev • Rbar & Sbar default method for any charts that include R or S charts (Xbar by itself uses pooled) • Capability • Overall statistics now provided 1st • Control charts default stdev change affects Sixpack • Tolerance Interval graph includes achieved confidence for nonparametric method • Reliability default estimation method now maximum likelihood • PSS for Equivalence Tests and Tolerance Intervals

33. February 18 Launch Minitab 17 Analyze your data Quality Trainer Learn statistics online

34. Questions?

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