Minitab 16 Workshop Presented by Arved Harding Your

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 2

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

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 Power. Point 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. 4

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. 5

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

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 7

Resources for Minitab® 16 § § Minitab® Tutorials (45 topics) • § § § Uses for the given tool or analysis Required data for the analysis How to complete the analysis in Minitab® Assistant • • § Provides detailed descriptions and examples 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 8

Minitab® tutorials 9

45 Tutorials on many topics of interest 10

2 -Sample t Minitab® tutorial 11

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

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

Minitab® ’s Assistant

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. 15

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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 Power. Point with a right click. Such as this 3 page report from a 2 -sample t-test. 21

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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) 25

2 -Sample t using Minitab® Assistant 26

Demo using Hospital Rating Data 27

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) 30

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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 32

Pricing info 33

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Customize and The Dashboard 37

Questions? ? 38