1. Minitab® 16 Workshop Presented by Arved Harding Your friendly, neighborhood statistician

2. Outline  A few new features  Minitab® ’s Assistant  Minitab® Tutorials  Quality Trainer  Quality Companion 2

3. Credit where it is due.  Many slides were created by Christy Bower, a statistician at Eastman in our Applied Statistics Group. 3

4. A few new features “Quality People” might like  Gage R&R Study (Expanded) – Include additional factors, analyze studies that are balanced or unbalanced, specify if factors are fixed or random, and more.  Compare two capability analyses to see if the process has improved.  General Regression – Easily specify interaction and polynomial terms, compute confidence intervals for regression coefficients, and more.  Export to PowerPoint and Word – Directly export your graphs and Session window output for easy reporting.  Nonlinear Regression – Model non-linear relationships between variables.  Power and Sample Size – Use seven new tools to calculate power and sample size. 4

5. More power and sample size options Minitab® provides power, sample size, and difference (effect) calculations for the following procedures:  · one-sample Zone-sample Z  · one-sample tone-sample t  · two-sample ttwo-sample t  · paired tpaired t  · one variance testone variance test  · two variances testtwo variances test  · one-sample proportionone-sample proportion  · two-sample proportiontwo-sample proportion  · one-sample Poisson rateone-sample Poisson rate  · two-sample Poisson ratetwo-sample Poisson rate  · one-way analysis of varianceone-way analysis of variance  · two-level factorial designstwo-level factorial designs  · Plackett-Burman designsPlackett-Burman designs  · General Full Factorial designsGeneral Full Factorial designs You can also estimate the sample size you need to obtain a specific margin of error using Sample Size for Estimation.Sample Size for Estimation 5

6. Sample size for estimation Parameters include: Mean Standard deviation Variance Proportion Rate 6

7. 7 Languages In addition to all the stuff we know about you can have Minitab® in a language other than English if you prefer. Under Tools>Options you can change the language KoreanEnglishFrench GermanChineseSpanishJapanese 7

8. Resources for Minitab® 16  Minitab® Tutorials (45 topics) Provides detailed descriptions and examples  Uses for the given tool or analysis  Required data for the analysis  How to complete the analysis in Minitab®  Minitab® Assistant Interactive step-by-step guide to completing common data analyses in Minitab® Provides ready-made reports  Report card of analysis assumptions  Diagnostic reports for evaluating outliers and stability  Summary report of the analysis  Quality Trainer E-learning course with hands-on exercises and quizzes 8

9. Minitab® tutorials 9

10. 45 Tutorials on many topics of interest 10

11. 2-Sample t Minitab® tutorial 11

12. What kind of data is required and what the worksheet should look like. 12

13. As well as an example and step-by-step instructions on how to use the tool 13

14. Minitab® ’s Assistant

15. When you feel you’re beyond help, consider Minitab® Assistant Minitab® has chosen a specific set of platforms to add in Assistant targeted to help Six Sigma belts get their analyses done more efficiently. 15

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21. Output is much nicer Typical output is a 3-4 page report. Each page can be copied as a graphic to Word or PowerPoint with a right click. Such as this 3 page report from a 2-sample t-test. 21

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25. A warning about using Minitab® Assistant Minitab® has tried to make these platforms as simple and easy to use as they could. In doing so, sometimes they took a slightly different statistical approach than the traditional one. So the p-values may not always match up exactly. Minitab® Assistant Minitab® Menu (assuming equal variances) 25

26. 2-Sample t using Minitab® Assistant 26

27. Demo using Hospital Rating Data 27

28. Minitab® ’s Quality Trainer

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30. Quality Trainer  Interactive guide to review specific statistical topics  Learn at your own pace  Test your knowledge with exercises and quizzes  Certificate of completion for certification credits is available from Minitab® upon completion of all material and quizzes (approximately 20 hours of training) 30

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32. Links to more information  For a complete description of the new features see: http://www.Minitab®.com/en-US/products/Minitab® /whats-new.aspx http://www.Minitab®.com/en-US/products/Minitab® /whats-new.aspx   See the link below for access to a Minitab® 16 tour, webinars and more. http://www.Minitab®.com/en-US/products/Minitab® /launch.aspxhttp://www.Minitab®.com/en-US/products/Minitab® /launch.aspx  For prerecorded webinars see http://www.Minitab®.com/en- US/theater/default.aspxhttp://www.Minitab®.com/en- US/theater/default.aspx   To learn what statistical techniques Minitab® assistant uses in each platform and why a detailed white paper has been written, go to http://www.Minitab®.com/en- US/support/answers/answer.aspx?id=2613 http://www.Minitab®.com/en- US/support/answers/answer.aspx?id=2613 32

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37. Customize and The Dashboard 37

38. Questions? 38