1. 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

2. Chapter 1 Minitab Examples
Random Numbers Nordstrom’s Payroll

3. 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 Values must be nteger numbers corresponding to employee numbers

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

5. Random Numbers – Nordstrom’s Payroll
Select
Integer

6. 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

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