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

2. 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.

3. Example of Minitab Selecting Data
column number
row number

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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