Introduction to

Minitab

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 What is Minitab?

• A commercial software package which is very

popular among many organizations associated
with the Six Sigma program.

• Capable of performing many types of

quantitative data analysis using graphical tools
and statistical techniques such as time series
forecasting, reliability and Design of
Experiments.

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 When you start Minitab, a new, empty project is
opened for you. You will see three windows:

·    Data window
·    Session window
·    Project Manager (minimized at startup)

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 Data Window

Window > Worksheet***

Displays your current worksheet in a spreadsheet format, with rows and
columns that intersect to form individual cells .

Note
A worksheet can contain up to 4000 columns , 1000 constants , and up to
10,000,000 rows depending on how much memory your computer has.
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 Session Window

Window > Session

The Session window displays the text output generated by your analyses and
other work.
·    You can edit and format text as you would in a word processor: add
comments, cut, copy, and paste, change fonts.
·    You can save and print Session window text in ReportPad or a word
processor to create complex reports.
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 Graphs Window
Summary Report for Hub Height
Anderson-Darling Normality Test
A-Squared 0.35
P-Value 0.457
Mean 5.0212
StDev 0.0055
Variance 0.0000
Skewness 0.70589
Kurtosis 1.55748
N 30
Minimum 5.0108 Process Capability Report for Hub Height
1st Quartile 5.0178
Median 5.0214
3rd Quartile 5.0236
Maximum 5.0373 LSL Target USL
95% Confidence Interval for Mean Process Data Overall
LSL 4.935 Within
5.010 5.016 5.022 5.028 5.034 5.0191 5.0232
Target 5
95% Confidence Interval for Median USL 5.065 Overall Capability
5.0193 5.0228 Sample Mean 5.02116 Pp 3.96
Sample N 30 PPL 5.24
95% Confidence Interval for StDev
StDev(Overall) 0.00547828 PPU 2.67
0.0044 0.0074 Ppk 2.67
StDev(Within) 0.00523661
Cpm 0.98
Potential (Within) Capability
95% Confidence Intervals Cp 4.14
CPL 5.48
Mean CPU 2.79
Cpk 2.79

Median

5.019 5.020 5.021 5.022 5.023

4.950 4.968 4.986 5.004 5.022 5.040 5.058

Performance
Observed Expected Overall Expected Within
PPM < LSL 0.00 0.00 0.00
PPM > USL 0.00 0.00 0.00
PPM Total 0.00 0.00 0.00

• Outputs of all graphs generated from the analysis.

• Can be ‘copy-&-paste’ to report or slides.

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 Tool Bars

Session Window
(Ctrl + M)
Edit Last
Dialog Current Data
(Ctrl+E) Window
(Ctrl + D)
Print Window
(Ctrl+P) Stat Guide
(Shift + F1)
Save Project
(Ctrl+S) Help

Open Project Project Manager

(Ctrl+O) (Ctrl + I)

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 More on Data Window
3 Types Data Format:
• Numeric
• refer to Quantitative variable
• Text (alphanumeric)
• refer to text / Qualitative variable
• Date/Time (M-D-Y)
• refer to date variable

Methods of data entry:

• Direct entry into data window.
• Copy-&-paste from other application.
• From existing worksheet.
• Import from other application.

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 More on Data Window

Column number Extension

Row Cells
Number

Column Number

• Each column has a column number C1, C2….

• Extension of column number indicates data format of the

column.

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 Data Structure

• Some analysis require data to be reorganized in certain

format e.g.. stack.

• Methods for stacking of data include:

• Stack columns.

• Stack blocks of columns.

• Stack rows.

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 Reorganize/Redefine Data Structure

• For some analysis, data need to be redefined.

• Methods for redefining data include:

• Coding – Numeric to text or vice versa;

• Create Patterned Data – Number or Text.

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 Stack Columns

Open data file

HUBHEIGHT.MTW
Tasks:

a) Stack data in columns Ht1, Ht2, Ht3 into column “Hub Height”.

b) Store the subscript (option) ID in column “Probe”.

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 Data Window

Data from columns Ht1,

Ht2, Ht3 are now
stacked in column “Hub
Height”.

Their corresponding
subscript ID’s are
stored in column
“Probe”.

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 Stack Blocks of Columns

Tasks:

a) Stack data in columns Ht1, Ht2, Ht3 into column “Hub Height”
and the Day into column “Day-Col”.

b) Store the subscript (option) ID in column “Probe”.

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 Data Window

Data from columns Ht1,

Ht2, Ht3 are now
stacked in column “Hub
Height” and the Day
into column “Day-Col”.

Their corresponding
subscript ID’s are
stored in column
“Probe”.

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 Stack Rows

Tasks:

a) Stack data (row) in Ht1, Ht2, Ht3 into column “Hub Height”.

b) Store the subscript (option) ID in column “Day-Row”.

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 Data Window

Data from columns Ht1,

Ht2, Ht3 are now
stacked in row-wise.

Their corresponding
subscript ID’s are
stored in column
“Day-Row”.

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 Create Patterned Data

• There exists a pattern in Day column.

• The sequence is 1, 2, 3 and it is repeated 10 times.

• Instead of input the data one by one, Minitab allows user

to create patterned data, either text or number.

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 Calc > Make Patterned Data > Simple Set of Numbers

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 Data Window

Same count of day.

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 Coding (Number to Text)

Task:

Convert data in “Day” from number to text in the following form:

• 1 - Monday

• 2 - Tuesday

• 3 – Wednesday

Store the data into column “Day-Row”.

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 Data > Code > Numeric to Text

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 Data Window

1 – Monday
2 – Tuesday
3 - Wednesday

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 Change Data Type

Minitab allows change of data type (numeric, test and date/time)

to suit your analysis requirement.

Task:

Convert data in column “Date-Text” which consists of date in

text format, to date/time format and store in column
“Date-Time”

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 Data > Change Data Type > Text to
Date/Time

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 Data Window

Time Time

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 Extract Data

Minitab is able to extract certain information from data in date/time

format.

Task:

Extract corresponding (choose from) “Week”, “Month”,

“Quarter” from data in column “Date-Time” and store in
column “Week”

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 Data > Date/Time > Extract to Numeric

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 Data Window

1st week from

January 4

3rd week from

January 13~16

7th week from

February 9~15

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 Simple Data Analysis

Stat > Basic Statistics > Display Descriptive Statistics

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 Information obtained from the analysis is placed in the session
window
Descriptive Statistics: Hub Height

Variable N N* Mean SE Mean StDev Minimum Q1 Median Q3 Maximum

Hub Height 90 0 5.0192 0.000721 0.00684 5.0067 5.0140 5.0185 5.0230 5.0388

The graph generated from the analysis is placed in the graph

folder.
Individual Value Plot of Hub Height

5.005 5.010 5.015 5.020 5.025 5.030 5.035 5.040

Hub Height

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 Brush
Right Click from the Graph

Allows user to locate corresponding data in data window from data

point in graphical output.

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 Saving a Worksheet and Project File

• On the File menu

• Save Current Worksheet As……

• Select the appropriate Drive to save into

• Select the File Name

WORKSHEET FILE
• Note:- This just saves the data in the worksheet. Your session
and other windows have not been saved

PROJECT FILE
• Note:- This just saves all the data and information from the
various windows (including the graphs).

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• File \ Save Current Worksheet As..

Saving a Project File

Saving a Worksheet File

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 Getting HELP and STATGUIDE

• Features an extensive on-line Help system

• Explains on the ‘terms’ in the Tool Bar

• How to interpret results of a command
• Examples and Interpretation of results in sub-sections

• Note :
– Help may often be valuable. Spend sometime experimenting with it
before you genuinely need it.

Help Stat Guide

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 End of Topic

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 References
•Seagate Suppliers Six Sigma Modular
Training Modules and BB Materials
•Neville Clarke SS53 Training Modules

•iSixSigma.com publications

Applied Statistics and Probability

for Engineers
Douglas Montgomery, George Runger
John Wiley
ISBN 0471170275

Engineering Statistics
Douglas Montgomery, George Runger, Norma Hubele
John Wiley
ISBN 0471170267 Introduction to Minitab
Revised by: Jason Agawin
PH M P 0910-030
For NCFL Training
• original issued July 2006
July 17, 2014
• revised June 21, 2014
• for NCFL training

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