Welcome to Minitab 17!
Minitab 17 offers numerous new
features and enhancements including
improvements to:
The Assistant
Regression and GLM
DOE
And more…
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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
What value does it provide?
► Customers are already using DOE in core Minitab
► However, users really struggle with DOE:
• Choosing the appropriate design
• Analyzing the data is not always straightforward
► Easier for our users to:
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Plan and create experiments
Analyze the data
Conduct residuals analysis
Find optimal settings
Assistant for Multiple Regression
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What value does it provide?
► Regression is used everywhere
► Customers liked Minitab 16 Assistant, but only for 1X
► Easier for our users to:
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Find significant factors
Conduct residuals analysis
Identify outliers
Find optimal settings
Improved Graphical Analysis
Easier Dialogs +
More Extensive Output
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What value does it provide?
► Better dialogs – e.g. shows categorical samples
► Diagnostic reports with guidance
► Report card with next steps
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Top
Regression
Enhancements
& GLM
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Easily specify
factors
Automatic model
selection
Regression
Binary Logistic
GLM
More graphs
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Response
optimizer
What value does it provide?
► CONSISTENCY across regression and GLM
► Better workflow (e.g. stepwise > model fitting), plus new
model dialog and “view model”
► More statistical features:
• Automatic model selection
• Prediction
• And more!
► More graphical features
• Factorial, contour and surface plots plus response optimizer
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Binary Fitted Line Plot + other graphs
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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
Factors
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DOE dialog changes
• Alpha moved from Graphs to Options, called “Confidence level”
• Box-Cox for Factorial and RS
• Effects, main effects and interaction plots display all terms,
includes excluded terms
• Cube plots of fitted values available for reduced models
• Response optimizer changes:
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Factorial allows for constraints
Doesn’t require min/max value
Only displays composite desirability for >1 X
Provides CI and PI tables
Additional
AdditionalFeatures
Features
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► Assistant
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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…
► Bubble Plots
• Graph multiple
variables in a 2D
space
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► Outlier Tests
• Grubbs’ and Dixon’s
► Poisson Regression
• Model count data (Y), typically low counts/rare events
• Examples: number of machine failures, C-sections
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Poisson Regression
f (x) = y
► Practical application
In 1898, Ladislaus Bortkiewicz’s investigation of the number of
Prussian army soldiers killed by horse kicks
► Example
Residents in rural Tanzania are being attacked by lions,
frequently resulting in severe injury and death
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Y
Lunar Cycle Days
Xs
Above/Below Horizon
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► Equivalence Tests to determine if mean(s) are similar
enough to be considered equivalent
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► Stability Studies
• Pharmaceuticals
• Determine shelf-life
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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
► Games-Howell comparisons method for unequal
variances
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Chi-Square Tests
► Chi-Square Test for Association
2
C
• No longer “Two-Way Table…”
• Raw or summarized data for 2-way tables
• Can 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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► Round date/time
► Updated graph style and symbols
- New colors and fonts
► Updated worksheet font and column formula/model symbols, plus
‘Missing’ indicator for text columns
► Minitab in Portuguese
• Plus English, French, Spanish, German, Simplified Chinese, Korean
and Japanese (8 languages)
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Additional
Details to
Features
Note
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► Tooltips for all menus
► Graphs no longer editable in Word or PowerPoint
► EDA menu no longer displayed by default
► New hypothesis test dialogs and output symbols
► Unstacked data option for Test for Equal Variances
► 2 Variances – graphical output, Bonett’s
► Correlation – added Spearman’s
► Balanced & General MANOVA
combined into 1 dialog
► Manage Profiles includes DMAIC (Assistant)
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► Gage R&R default alpha for part*operator = 0.05
► Control Charts default stdev
• Rbar & Sbar default method for any charts that include R or S charts
(Xbar by itself uses pooled)
► Capability
• Overall statistics now provided 1st
• Control charts default stdev change affects Sixpack
► Tolerance Interval graph includes achieved confidence for
nonparametric method
► Reliability default estimation method now maximum likelihood
► PSS for Equivalence Tests and Tolerance Intervals
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February 18 Launch
Minitab 17
Analyze your data
Quality Trainer
Learn statistics online
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Questions?
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Try or Buy Minitab 17
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to find your local Minitab representative
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