Minitab Student Handbook

PART I: OVERVIEW OF MINITAB 1. INTRODUCTION TO MINITAB Versions of Minitab / A Simple Example / A Brief Overview of Minitab / Some Basic Minitab Capabilities 2. VERSIONS OF MINITAB Command Versions / Release 8 DOS / Release 8 Macintosh / Release 9 Windows / Release 9 on VAX/VMS and UNIX Workstations PART II: BASIC METHODS 3. ONE VARIABLE: DISPLAYS AND SUMMARIES Three Basic Types of Data / Histograms / Dotplots / Stem-and-Leaf Displays / One-Number Statistics / Boxplots / Summarizing Categorical and Ordinal Data / Optional Material on High-Resolution Graphs 4. PLOTTING DATA Scatterplots / Plots with Groups / Plots with Several Variables / Time Series Plots / Optional Material on High-Resolution Graphs 5. TABLES Tables of Counts and Percents / Tables for Related Variables 6. STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTIONS The Normal Distribution / The Binomial Distribution / Normal Approximation to the Binomial / The Poisson Distribution / A Summary of Distributions in Minitab 7. STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTIONS AND SIMULATION Using Simulation to Learn About Randomness / Bernoulli Trials / Simulating Data from a Normal Distribution / Simulating Data from the Binomial Distribution / Simulating Data from the Poisson Distribution / Sampling Data from Other Distributions / The Base for the Random Number Generator 8. ONE-SAMPLE CONFIDENCE INTERVALS AND TESTS FOR POPULATION MEANS How Sample Means Vary / Confidence Interval for m When s is Known / Confidence Interval for m When s Is Not Known / Test of Hypothesis for m When s Is Known / Test of Hypothesis for m When s Is Not Known / Departures from Assumptions 9. COMPARING TWO MEANS: CONFIDENCE INTERVALS AND TESTS Paired and Independent Data / Difference Between Two Means: Paired Data / Difference Between Two Means: Independent Samples 10. ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE Analysis of Variance with One Factor / Analysis of Variance with Two Factors / Randomized Block Designs / Residuals and Fitted Values 11. CORRELATION AND REGRESSION Correlation / Simple Regression: Fitting a Straight Line / Making Inferences from Straight-Line Fits / Multiple Regression / Fitting Polynomials / Interpreting Residuals in Simple and Polynomial Regression / Using Transformations / Some Additional Features of REGRESS / Optional Material on High-Resolution Graphs 12. CHI-SQUARE TESTS AND CONTINGENCY TABLES Chi-Square Goodness-of-Fit Test / Contingency Tables / Making the Table and Computing Chi-Square / Tables with Small Expected Counts. (Part contents).