MINITAB commands

 


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Data Input and Output

NAME E “name”…E “name”
PRINT E
READ data into columns C…C … END
SET data in column C … END
Data Manipulation
CODE (K…K) to K …(K…K) to K for C, store in C
DELETE rows K…K from columns C…C
DIFFERENCES of data in C, put into C
PARSUMS of C, put into C (sum of first i rows into ith row of storage column)
RANK data in C
ROUND to the nearest integer (data in E store in E)
STACK data from (E…E) in C [; SUBSCRIPTS to be put in C.]
TALLY data in C [; STORE categories in C, frequencies in C.]
UNSTACK data from C into C…C; SUBSCRIPTS are in C.

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Plots and Diagrams
BOXPLOT of data in C
CHART of data in C # bar chart #
DOTPLOT of data in C
HISTOGRAM of data in C
    [ CUTPOINTS at K…K]
    [ NINTERVAL K] # no. of intervals in graph #
For each of the above graphs there are optional subcommands:
    [ OVERLAYthe graphs] # plots sets of data on a single graph with same scale #
    [ TITLE is “title”]
PLOT y in C versus x in C # scattergram #
STEM-AND-LEAF of data in C
    [ INCREMENT K]
TSPLOT of data in C # time series plot #

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Simple Statistics
CORRELATION coefficients of data in C…C [store in M]
DESCRIBE basic statistics of data in C
GSUMMARY of data in C # five-no. summary, histogram, boxplot, etc. #
RMEAN of data in rows of C…C, store in C
Also RCOUNT, RMAX, RMEDIAN, RMIN, RRANGE, RSTDEV, RSUM

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Significance Tests & Confidence Intervals
Parametric(Means)
ONET test on data in C; TEST mean K. # t test on one sample #
ONEZ test on data in C; SIGMA K; TEST mean K. # z test on one sample #
PAIRED t test on data in C and C
TWOSAMPLE t test on data in C and C; POOLED variance.
Parametric(proportions)
PONE K trials with K successes; TEST value K. # test of a proportion #
PTWO K trials with K successes versus K trials with K successes
Nonparametric
CHISQUARE test of association on table stored in columns C…C
MANN-WHITNEY test on two samples C and C
STEST of median K on data in C # Sign test #
WTEST of median K on data in C # Wilcoxon signed-rank test #

For all the above tests, except CHISQUARE, there is the optional subcommand
ALTERNATIVE K # one tail test with K = +1 or –1 #

 

Sampling
SAMPLE of K values in C, put into C [; REPLACE for sampling with replacement.]
(See also ‘Probability Distributions’)

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Regression
REGRESS response C on K predictors in C…C
    [ GFITS] #graph of residuals versus fitted values #

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Probability Distributions
PDF i.e. probability density function of values in E [store in E]
CDF i.e. cumulative distribution function of values in E [store in E]
INVCDF i.e. inverse cdf of values in E [store in E]
RANDOM generation of K observations in each of C…C
    BERNOULLI probability of success K (only with RANDOM command)
    BINOMIAL no. of trials K, probability of success K
    CHISQUARE degrees of freedom K
    DISCRETE values in C and probabilities in C
    EXPONENTIAL mean unity, or [mean K]
    F numerator degrees of freedom K, denominator degrees of freedom K
    INTEGER minimum value K, maximum value K
    NORMAL mean zero, s.d. one, or [mean K, s.d. K]
    POISSON mean K
    T degrees of freedom K
    TRIANGULAR lower endpoint K, mode K, upper endpoint K
    UNIFORM (continuous) on interval zero to one, or [on interval K to K]

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Analysis of Variance
ONEWAY anova of data in C using group subscripts in C
TWOWAY anova of data in C using subscripts of treatments in C and of blocks in C

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Control Charts
NPCHART from no. of defectives in C based on sample size K;
    P has historic value K;
    SLIMITS at K…K.
XBARCHART based on means of subgroups;
    RSUB C…C; # subgroups in rows across stated columns #
    MU has historical value K;
    SIGMA has historical value K;
    SLIMITS at K…K.

 

Miscellaneous
INFORMATION on columns and constants of current worksheet
LET = expression

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Hodder Arnold