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What’s New in Minitab 17?

Jon SchultzMinitab Inc.

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Welcome to Minitab 17!Minitab 17 offers many new features and enhancements including improvements to:

Data Manipulation Assistant Regression, GLM, DOE

(new in Minitab 17.2)

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Top EnhancementsManipulating & Exploring Data

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DATAformatting

comments

sorting

highlighting

stacking

subsetting

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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Top EnhancementsThe Assistant

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Making Data Analysis Even Easier

► Over the years, customers have told us:

“I don’t know

which tool to use”

“Minitab has too many

options”

“The dialogs are too

technical”

“I need help

interpreting my

results”

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Designed for Green/Black Belts, occasional users, and those

who are new to statistics or Minitab

ASSISTANT

Graphs

Capability

Regres-sion

Hypothesis TestsMSA

DOE

Control Charts

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Assistant for DOE

► DOE easier than ever► Most requested Assistant feature

Screening designs

Modeling designs

(x & x2)

2

6-15 factors

2-5 factors

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Assistant for Multiple Regression

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Top EnhancementsRegression & GLM

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Easily specify factors

Automatic model selection

More graphs Response optimizer

Regression Binary Logistic

Regression GLM

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Top EnhancementsDesign 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 FeaturesAdditional 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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► 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…

Additional Assistant Improvements

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Outlier Tests – Grubbs’ and Dixon’s

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►Model count data (Y), typically low counts/rare events

►Examples: number of machine failures or C-sections per time period

►Historical applicationIn 1898, Ladislaus Bortkiewicz’s investigation of the number of

Prussian army soldiers killed by horse kicks

y = f (x)Poisson Regression

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► Determine if mean(s) are similar enough to be considered equivalent

Equivalence Tests

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► Used in Pharma to determine shelf-life

Stability Studies

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► 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

DOE

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► Stacked and unstacked all-in-one menu

► Welch’s method• For unequal variances• First introduced in Minitab 16 Assistant

► Comparisons graphs

One-Way ANOVA

Note: No Two-Way ANOVA menu

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► Chi-Square Test for Association• 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

C2Chi-Square Tests

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Quality Trainer updated for Minitab 17

Quality Trainer Learn statistics online

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Questions?

Jon Schultz

[email protected]

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