Learning Minitab

Introduction

• Welcome to Minitab
• Exercise files

1. Minitab Overview

• Screen tour of Minitab
• How to input and organize data in Minitab
• Make patterned data in Minitab
• Creating random data in Minitab
• Challenge: Preparing worksheets
• Solution: Preparing worksheets

2. Data Visualization

• Creating bar charts in Minitab
• Creating bubble plots in Minitab
• Creating heatmaps in Minitab
• Creating pie charts in Minitab
• Creating Pareto charts in Minitab
• Creating scatterplots in Minitab
• Creating time series plots in Minitab
• Creating stacked area graphs in Minitab
• Challenge: Display graphs and charts
• Solution: Display graphs and charts

3. Displays of Variation

• Creating individual value plots in Minitab
• Creating dotplots in Minitab
• Creating histograms in Minitab
• Creating boxplots in Minitab
• Challenge: Displays of variation
• Solution: Displays of variation

4. Descriptive Statistics

• Calculating descriptive statistics using Minitab
• Generating graphical summaries of data
• Generating confidence interval plots in Minitab
• Challenge: Making inferences on continuous data
• Solution: Making inferences on continuous data

5. Inferential Statistics with Continuous Data

• Testing for normal distributions in Minitab
• Comparing variances in Minitab
• Comparing means using a student's t-tests in Minitab
• Comparing multiple means using ANOVA in Minitab
• Comparing medians using nonparametric tests in Minitab
• Correlation with simple regression using Minitab
• Multiple regression using Minitab
• Challenge: Making inferences on continuous data
• Solution: Making inferences on continuous data

6. Inferential Statistics Using Categorical Data

• Proportions tests using Minitab
• Contingency test for independence using Minitab
• Challenge: Making inferences on categorical data
• Solution: Making inferences on categorical data

7. Share and Save Your Work

• Sharing and saving outputs from Minitab

Conclusion

• Next steps and additional resources