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Minitab is a very powerful tool and can help calculate almost any
quality statistic very fast
Minitab is very compatible with Microsoft copy and paste
functions. You can Copy and paste data straight out of an Excel
file and copy into the Data portion of Minitab.
Copy and Paste or
Key in data into
data field. I
always key into
one column
Minitab will sort
the problem
better in one
column for basic
histograms and X
bar and R charts
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Next you can calculate basic functions for example X bar and R charts and
Histograms. After Keying in data go to charts.
You can Go to Stat>Control charts>variables charts for subgroups>X-bar-R
Then Minitab will automatically create your X bar and R chart.
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Also Minitab will take the same data set and
create histograms or pareto charts.
For Histograms just go to the
Graph>histograms functions
For Pareto go to the Stat>Quality Tools>Pareto
Chart.
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Histogram example
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Pareto Example
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Minitab can also quickly calculate all of the basic quality statistics for you quickly
such as Mean, Mode, standard deviation, variance, and many others.
Simply go to stats>basic statistics>display descriptive statistics
Then after the statistics box appears click on the column and insert what you want
to calculate.
Then click on the statistics tab and you can choose any option you want to
calculate on the Display Statistics box.
Display statistics box will
appear click on any statistic
function you need for the
problem
Variable
C1
Mean SE Mean StDev Variance Minimum
Q1 Median Maximum
19.718 0.242 2.419 5.852 14.100 18.225 20.200 23.900
After completion all statistics will appear
for the problem and you can copy and
paste it into your file Word or Excel.
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Minitab can also calculate many other functions that I
have learned.
Distribution charts
Stem and Leaf
Poisson Distribution
Binomial Distributions
Probability Charts
Normally if you need help you can google and the
Minitab website will have the easy directions for you.
YouTube also has many lessons for you to watch if
your having issues.