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Minitab is a general-purpose statistical software used by business and academic researches mainly in the fields of business and quality control. It is often used in the conjunction with Six Sigma, which is a project-oriented quality control system and other statistical-based process improvement methods. The latest version of Minitab is version 15.1.0.0 and will be the version discussed in this report using Windows XP operating system. Minitab supports both pull-down interface and command-line interface. While pull-down interface provides clickable options through menus and dialog boxes, command lines allow you to provide specific instructions, through a command language. To enable command line input, 1) click Editor in menu 2) select Enable Commands one important thing worth noting while using command lines method is to always type in end at the end of codes for them to be read and run. The Minitab environment consists of two windows by default, which are session and data windows. Session window where command lines are entered. Also displays result of analysis and log Data window where data is showed, edited and entered
Session Window
Data Window
When using the pull-down interface, a regression window will pop out and provides different data manipulation options. Advanced analysis method such as weighted model can be selected and options to information such as VIF, PRESS statistics can be modified here. As seen in the output, the default result shown in Minitab provides p-value and F or t statistics in for both the model and variables. For hypothesis testing, different options can be selected by selecting Stat in menu bar, then Basic Stiatistics and can be looked up in Minitab help file so will not be discussed in this report. To specify interaction, * is used in Minitab. Also if the variables are nested, the user needs to specify this in the command line using parentheses. For example, interaction between a and b nested in c, treating price as the dependant variable, then the coding should be: GLM price =c(a*b);
shown in a different window so the users are not required to plot all the graphs in one window or divide the window like they have to do in other software such as SAS.
Main Effects Plot for player
Data Means group 114
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test 1 2 3 4 5
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similar windows will pop out after step 2 and one thing to note when entering in the random effect is to make sure the random effect is also included in the model textbox or an error message will be produced. To choose whether Type I or Type III error to be computed, the options button in regression or ANOVA window has to be used. However, when it comes to dealing with random effect, Minitab automatically calculates the F value of individual variables using MSE as the denominator, where it is usually not the right way to compute the F values. Therefore, the user has to check the SS components of different variables in order to calculate the right F value. Provided below is an example of the random effect analysis output:
Factor Test_ Player Type fixed random Levels 5 11 Values 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 100, 102, 103, 105, 107, 112, 115, 118, 120, 121, 122
Analysis of Variance for VisCom, using Adjusted SS for Tests Source Test_ Player Error Total DF 4 10 22 36 Seq SS 239.1 758.5 2592.1 3589.7 Adj SS 287.3 758.5 2592.1 Adj MS 71.8 75.9 117.8 F 0.61 0.64 P 0.660 0.761
S = 10.8546
R-Sq = 27.79%
R-Sq(adj) = 0.00%
Also, to carry out a Chi-squared test in Minitab, 1) Select Stat in menu bar 2) Select Tables 3) Select Chi-Square Goodness-of-Fit Test and enter the variables accordingly.
Minitab help
Due to page limitation, many options of Minitab will not be discussed in this report and can be referred in Minitab help file. To access Minitab help file, simply click help in menu bar or type in help in command window.