What’s New in Minitab 17?
Jon Schultz
Minitab Inc.
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Welcome to Minitab 17!
Minitab 17 offers many new
features and enhancements
including improvements to:
Data Manipulation
(new in Minitab 17.2)
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Assistant
Regression, GLM, DOE
Manipulating
Top Enhancements
& Exploring Data
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comments
formatting
stacking
DATA
sorting
subsetting
highlighting
70%-90% of time spent manipulating data
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Stack Worksheets
Data > Stack Worksheets
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Data Coding Improvements
Easily identify
and correct
data entry
errors
Code numbers into
meaningful values
Data > Code
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Just right-click on your data to…
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Change Column Formats
e.g. easily convert TEXT
column to NUMERIC
Right-click > Format Column
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Format Data using a Condition
Right-click > Conditional Formatting
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Sort and Subset
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Cell Formats and Comments
]
can be used to highlight cells,
or entire rows and columns
Right-click > Cell Properties
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TopThe
Enhancements
Assistant
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Making Data Analysis Even Easier
► Over the years, customers have told us:
“The dialogs
are too
technical”
“I don’t
know which
tool to use”
“Minitab has
too many
options”
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“I need help
interpreting
my results”
Graphs
Control
Charts
Capability
ASSISTANT
Regression
DOE
MSA
Hypothesis
Tests
Designed for Green/Black Belts, occasional users, and those
who are new to statistics or Minitab
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Assistant for DOE
► DOE easier than ever
► Most requested Assistant feature
Screening
designs
2-5 factors
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Modeling
2
designs
(x & x2)
6-15 factors
Assistant for Multiple Regression
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Top
Regression
Enhancements
& GLM
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Easily specify
factors
Automatic model
selection
Regression
Binary Logistic
Regression
GLM
More graphs
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Response
optimizer
Design
Top Enhancements
of Experiments
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Automatic model selection
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Response Optimizer for
General Factorial Designs (>2 levels)
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Response Surface with Categorical X’s
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Additional
AdditionalFeatures
Features
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Bubble Plots
► Graph multiple variables in a 2D space
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Automatic Footnotes for Excluded Data
Available for the Graph menu and Control Charts
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► New graph update status symbols
► Round date/time
► Minitab in Portuguese
• Plus English, French, Spanish, German, Simplified Chinese, Korean
and Japanese (8 languages)
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Additional Assistant Improvements
► Expanded Graphical Analysis results
► Stacked data option for 2-sample tests
► Chi-Square Goodness-of-Fit up to 12 levels (from 6)
► Capability analysis for unequal subgroup sizes
► Before/after control charts, plus Laney charts
► And more…
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Outlier Tests – Grubbs’ and Dixon’s
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Poisson Regression
y = f (x)
►Model count data (Y), typically low counts/rare events
►Examples: number of machine failures or C-sections per
time period
►Historical application
In 1898, Ladislaus Bortkiewicz’s investigation of the number of
Prussian army soldiers killed by horse kicks
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Equivalence Tests
► Determine if mean(s) are similar enough to be
considered equivalent
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Stability Studies
► Used in Pharma to determine shelf-life
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DOE
► Box-Cox for Factorial and RS
► Non-hierarchical models
► Effects, main effects and interaction plots can display all
terms, including terms removed from model
► Cube plots of fitted values available for reduced models
► Response optimizer:
• Constraints for Factorial and RS
• Doesn’t require min/max value
• Provides CI and PI tables
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One-Way ANOVA
► Stacked and unstacked all-in-one menu
► Welch’s method
• For unequal variances
• First introduced in Minitab 16 Assistant
► Comparisons graphs
Note: No Two-Way ANOVA menu
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Chi-Square Tests
► Chi-Square Test for Association
2
C
• New name for “Two-Way Table…”
• Raw or summarized data for 2-way tables
• Specify Session labels for 2-way tables
► Cross Tab and Chi-Square
• Raw or summarized/table data
• McNemar’s Test for 2x2 paired proportions
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Quality Trainer updated for Minitab 17
Quality Trainer
Learn statistics online
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Questions?
Jon Schultz
jschultz@minitab.com
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