IET 603 Quality Assurance Presentation For Minitab Chapter 3 by Shane Wallingford

Minitab Instructions Covered Manipulating Cells, Rows, and Columns Selecting areas of the Data window To select Do this a block of cells drag across the cells. one or more entire rows drag across the row numbers one or more entire columns drag across the column numbers. all the cells choose Edit , and Select All Cells.

Example of Minitab Selecting Data column number row number

Minitab Instructions Covered Cutting, clearing, and deleting Note: Before cutting, clearing, or deleting, select an area or click on the cell you want to make active. To Delete … Do This Cells for Clipboard Choose Edit, Cut Cells Cell contents only Choose Edit, Clear Cells Delete cells Choose Edit, Delete Cells or Backspace

Minitab Solution Example The following is an example of how to solve problems in Minitab Input Data in Column C1 Highlight column C1 by dragging the clicked mouse over the data in C1 or by clicking the gray box at the top of the data set that has C1 in it This should turn Column C1 Black

Minitab Solution Example Go to the Tools bar and select “Stat” The Drop box will come down Hold the mouse over Basic Statistics Scroll over to Display Descriptive Statistics and click on that

Minitab Solution Example This will bring up a new box called Display Descriptive Statistics “C1” will be in the box on the left Click on “C1” and click on the Select option (located at the bottom of the of the C1 box) to move “C1” into the Variables Box Select the Statistics option to bring up the different options you can choose from to analyze the data

Minitab Solution Example This option brings up many options to choose from Select from this box what you want to do by checking the box beside the selection Mean, sum, SE Mean, Range, Variance, Standard Deviation, kurtosis, etc. are some of the functions that can be done statistically

Minitab Solution Example Click ok in the Statistics box Click ok in the Display Descriptive Statistics box This will give you the solutions to the input data from C1 and put them at the top of the page above the data set