MANUAL 01

ACTIVITY 1.
OBTAINING A SIMPLE RANDOM

Simple Set of Numbers.

First number= 56
Last number= 1
Spacing= 1
Procedure:
1. Go to Calculate
2. Select Make Patterned Data
3. Than Simple Set of Numbers.
4. Store it in C1, from first value (choose a number) to last value (choose a number) in steps of

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 ACTIVITY 2.
OBTAINING A SAMPLE FROM (CREATED) SET:

Procedure:
1. Go to Calculate
2. Select Random Data
3. Sample From Columns Number of rows: (whatever number of data pieces you need) From
sample C1, Store data in C2

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 ACTIVITY 3.
FREQUENCY AND RELATIVE FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTIONS FROM
RAW DATA:

Procedure::
1. Go to Stat >
2. Then Tables >
3. Tally Individual Variables Select the appropriate column into the Variables: box.
4. Choose one of the options from the results that can be displayed. – Counts- (i.e. frequency), -
Percents- (i.e. relative frequency)
5. click OK

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 ACTIVITY 4

DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS:
Procedure:
1. Do to Stat
2. Select Basic Statistics
3. Display Descriptive Statistics Left box will appear, then, Click Statistics, upper right box will
appear and by clicking Graphs, lower right box will appear. check the options you need, results
will appear in session window and graphs separately.
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PART-II

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 ACTIVITY 5.
PIE AND BAR CHARTS FROM SUMMARIZED DATA:
Procedure:
1. Go to Graph
2. Select pie chart

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 ACTIVITY 6.
PIE AND BAR CHARTS FROM RAW DATA:
Procedure:
1. Go to Graph
2. Select pie chart

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 ACTIVITY 7
SIMPLE TIME SERIES PLOT:

Procedure:
1. Go to Graph >
2. Time Series Plot >
3. Simple. In the Dialog box that appears, place your cursor in the “Series” box and select “DJIA”
from the list to the left. Under Time/Scale, choose “Stamp” and select column C1 (“Day”) in the
box labeled “Stamp Columns.” Click OK twice.
4. You can select the numbered days shown above the line and delete them to obtain the line chart.

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 ACTIVITY 8.
LINE PLOT FOR CATEGORICAL DATA:

Procedure:
1. Choose Graph > Line Plot > With Symbols > One Y.
2. In Function, select Mean.
3. In Graph variables, enter Strength.
4. In Categorical variable for X-scale grouping, enter Operator.
5. In Categorical variable for legend grouping, enter Machine.
6. Click OK

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 EXAMPLE 01
Well labeled Pie Chart and Bar Chart:

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Frequency 15.4% 60.8% 11.1% 40.7% 21.7% 62.2%
(%)

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 EXAMPLE 2
Line Chart:

Procedure:
1. choose Graph
2. Line Plot.

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 EXAMPLE 3
Dot Plots, Stem & Leaf Plots
Procedure:
1. Open the data set in Minitab From the tool bar,
2. select Graph
3. Dotplot... Under One Y Variable,
4. select Simple Click OK
5. Double click the variable Online Courses Completed in the box on the left to insert it into the Y-
variable box on the right
6. Click OK

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EXPERIMENT 4

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Stem and Leaf Chart:

Procedure:
1. Determine the smallest and largest number in the data. The game stats:
2. Identify the stems
3. Draw a vertical line and list the stem numbers to the left of the line.
4. Fill in the leaves.
5. Sort the leaf data.

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 EXPERIMENT 5
Frequency Distribution and Histogram:
Procedure:
1. Choose Graph
2. Histogram Choose Simple.
3. Click OK.
4. In Graph variables, enter Length of Stay.
5. Click Data Options.
6. Click Frequency.
7. In Frequency variable, enter Frequency.
8. Click OK twice.

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 EXAMPLE 6
Box plot:
Procedure:
1. Command Graphs
2. Boxplot
3. One Y
4. Simple.
5. Click OK.

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 EXAMPLE 7
Multiple Bar Chart:
Procedure:
1. Command: Graph
2. Bar chart
3. values from table
4. two way table
5. cluster OK
6. graph variables
7. row variables
8. rows are the outermost categories and columns are innermost OK

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