Guide to Using Minitab For Basic Statistical Applications To Accompany Business Statistics: A Decision Making Approach, 6th Ed. Chapter 1: The Where, Why and How of Data Collection By Groebner, Shannon, Fry, & Smith Prentice-Hall Publishing Company Copyright, 2005

Chapter 1 Minitab Examples Random Numbers - Nordstrom’s Payroll

Random Numbers - Nordstrom’s Payroll Issue: Nordstrom’s wishes to survey ten of their 300 employees. Employees are numbered 1 to 300. Objective: Use Minitab to generate 10 random numbers between 1 and 300. Values must be nteger numbers corresponding to employee numbers

Random Numbers – Nordstrom’s Payroll Click on Calc Click on Random Data

Random Numbers – Nordstrom’s Payroll Select Integer

Random Numbers – Nordstrom’s Payroll Indicate Where to put the values Indicate how many random variables to generate Define the range for the random numbers

Random Numbers – Nordstrom’s Payroll 10 Random Numbers Between 0 and 300 - These are the 10 employees to be selected