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Minitab DOE Tutorial2015
Minitab DOE Tutorial2015
Minitab DOE Tutorial2015
Please follow the directions given below and prepare a document with all the solutions and
supporting materials. This is just a review of the problems we covered in class, using Minitab to
solve them. You can hand your report in at the final exam (May 4, 1pm).
1 One-Way ANOVA
Dataset for this section is in the One-Way worksheet of the DOE_Data.xls file. They are the
bonding strengths of three different types of adhesives, A, B, and C, on paper in a pulp and paper
mill. The adhesives were randomly applied to four batches each.
You can copy to a Minitab worksheet the data for each adhesive in columns with the headings
on the first shaded row. To perform ANOVA analysis on the experimental data, do as follows.
1. Stat ->Anova -> One-Way (unstacked)
2. In the response window add the columns with heading A, B, C
3. Click on store residuals
4. Click on store fits
5. The default confidence level 95% should be sufficient to draw conclusions on the
pairwise differences between means
6. Click on Graphs and in the resulting pop-up window click on all the plots (Three in
one takes care of the three previous ones).
7. Click Ok and again Ok in the next window
Now you are ready to analyze your results. The Session window contains the ANOVA table,
where the P-value will indicate how confident you are that you can reject the null hypothesis of
equal effects of all treatments (in this example, all adhesive types).
Question 1: Can we conclude that there is a significant difference in the bonding strength
resulting from the different adhesive types?
The Session window also provides 95% confidence intervals for the response under each
adhesive type.
Question 2: Can we conclude that there is a significant difference between adhesive A and B?
Calculate a 95% confidence interval for the difference to double check.
The plots provide a visual tool to validate the assumptions of the model:
Normality assumption
o Normal probability plot of residuals
Independence of observations
o Plot residuals against run order
Question 3: Look at the plots and discuss whether the model is appropriate, that is, the
assumptions hold reasonably well. Observe that since we only have 4 data points per sample, we
cannot expect to have a very good fit. We are looking for very wild departures here. The model
is robust to small departures from normality and from the other assumptions.
Minitab does not automatically provide a run chart of residuals against run order when you give
data unstacked (since you are not providing the run order), so the third assumption cannot be
tested there. In this experiment, it was found that the run order was key (see picture below) and
there seemed to be a different behavior for each run of three. The experiments were run by first
doing replication 1 of the three adhesives, then replication 2 and then 3, each on a different batch
of paper.
Residual
2
1
0
-1
10 11 12
-2
Run Number
Question 4: Has the blocking improved your experiment? Observe the error (MSE) and compare
with that in the original One-Way ANOVA you run. Why is it smaller?
Look at the plot of residuals versus observation (or run) order, which is what made us think of
blocking when we initially performed the one-way ANOVA analysis. Observe that the value
of the residuals now seems more random, with no particular pattern, validating the assumption of
independence of observations.