Guide to Using Minitab 14 For Basic Statistical Applications To Accompany Business Statistics: A Decision Making Approach, 8th Ed. Chapter 1: The Where, Why and How of Data Collection By Groebner, Shannon, Fry, & Smith Prentice-Hall Publishing Company Copyright, 2011

Chapter 1 Minitab Examples Random Numbers Nordstrom’s Payroll Random Numbers Nordstrom’s Payroll Random Numbers Random Numbers Excel Interface Excel Interface Excel Interface Excel Interface

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 integer numbers corresponding to employee numbers

Random Numbers – Nordstrom’s Payroll Click on Calc Click on Random Data Click on 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 These are the 10 employees to be selected

Importing and Exporting Minitab data to Excel Issue: Occasionally there is a need to import or export data to an Excel spreadsheet. Objective: Use Minitab to read and create an Excel (.XLS) spreadsheet

Importing Excel Data Select file type of “Excel” To open an Excel spreadsheet in Minitab

Saving your Minitab data in Excel Click on “Save Current Worksheet as…

Saving your Minitab data in Excel Click on the version of Excel You want to save it as – Click on “Save”