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Table of Contents
Executive Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
User Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Integrated Graphics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Interactivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Problem-centric vs. Tool-centric Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Data Table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Scripting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Conclusion. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
The JMP® Advantage
Executive Summary
JMP® provides comprehensive statistics and an interactive environment for designing
experiments, analyzing and exploring data, and uncovering trends that might otherwise go
unnoticed. JMP can be customized and tailored to fit the varied needs and levels of practitio-
ners in your organization, and its graphical interactivity enables everyone to make a contribution
to the productivity gains promised by Six Sigma. JMP is ideally suited for those needing a desk-
top statistics package that is suited for all users, including every level of Six Sigma practitioners
from Master Black Belts on down.
This paper highlights the distinctive aspects of JMP, its user interface, Six Sigma tools and
advanced statistical modeling capabilities.
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User Interface
Integrated Graphics
Every JMP® analysis has a graph as its central
element and often has a graph for every sta-
tistical test. JMP fluidly scrolls the graphs and
reports together as a single document in single
window. JMP has innovative graphs for some
analyses that help you interpret the analysis,
find patterns, find points that don’t fit patterns,
and follow up on any pattern, outlier, or analyti-
cal insight you have. JMP automatically gives
graphs, rather than you having to ask for them.
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Interactivity
JMP’s analyses are interactive, not static. In JMP, commands are available interactively to
extend an analysis or provide more details. As an analysis unfolds, further opportunities appear.
You don’t have to think ahead and specify everything you want before you launch the analysis.
JMP encourages active exploration. Because each analysis is interactive, you are naturally
encouraged to follow clues to dig deeper into the analysis. You don’t have to relaunch the analy-
sis to find available options. If you turn on an option that doesn’t contribute to your understand-
ing, you can turn it back off, uncluttering the report.
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With JMP, the launching process is often just specifying the variables you want, rather than all of
the details of the analysis. In addition, analysis dialogs are non-modal. You are free to work on
other windows and check details in deciding what you want before you commit or dismiss a
dialog.
With JMP, you select the data table and the type of analysis you want, drag and drop variables, specify
parameters, and run the analyses.
Data Table
JMP data is richer. JMP’s data tables support a rich set of metadata, including table name-
value pairs, scripts that you can store with the data, many types of property data, including
coding, value labels, models, and so on. In JMP, you identify a variable as continuous
or categorical once, and the setting is remembered and doesn’t need to be respecified in
each analysis.
JMP supports active and persistent formulas. JMP has column formulas which stay with the
data, and are evaluated as data is changed or added. Using a formula, you can easily fill a col-
umn with data.
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Scripting
Early JMP adopters wanted to use extend their use of JMP in three ways. They wanted to
• Automate common analysis tasks
• Extend JMP’s capabilities by adding their own statistical analyses
• Create animations to demonstrate statistical points.
To answer these requests, JMP now includes a complete scripting language. In fact, JMP can
produce scripts itself that mirror actions you perform interactively, allowing you to quickly use
JMP to monitor frequently updated processes.
JMP captures your analyses as a script you can replay or edit. In this script to demonstrate how Kernel
densities work, a handle allows users to interactively change the bandwidth while the script is running.
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By contrast, JMP’s Custom designer builds a design to match the requirements of the problem.
The Custom designer is a general-purpose tool supporting screening, RSM, and mixture experi-
ments. By supporting these objectives with a single designer, JMP returns the work to being
problem-centered, rather than tool-centered.
Pre-formulated designs require specific sample sizes. For example, two-level factorial designs
have sample sizes that are powers of two. The Custom designer can build designs for any
sample size greater than or equal to the number of estimated parameters. This can result in
substantial savings of resources and time.
Optimal experiments involving dozens of factors are infeasible for older algorithms that required
a candidate set (that grows exponentially with the number of factors). The Custom designer
generates either D-optimal or I-optimal designs using the coordinate exchange algorithm.
Because the coordinate exchange algorithm does not require a candidate set, the Custom
designer can quickly produce designs for these large problems.
There are situations where there are dozens of factors, but resource constraints limit the
number of runs to be fewer than the number of factors. The Custom designer can generate
supersaturated designs using an extension of Bayesian D-optimality that allows these
situations to be analyzed.
Before running the experiment, the JMP prediction variance profiler lets you see the prediction
variance relative to the noise variance to determine if the experiment has enough predictive
specificity.
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Augmenting existing designs. The Augment designer can add a specified number of runs
either D- or I-optimally to any existing experiment. This addition can occur simultaneously with
new factor ranges and a more complex model specification. Thus, the Augment designer sup-
ports a process of sequential experimentation that speeds the discovery of optimal settings.
Control Charts
JMP produces all common control charts. In addi-
tion, it can capture data in real time (for an instrument
attached to a serial port) and augment a chart instantly.
Tests for out-of-control points (Western Electric rules
and Westgard Rules) can trigger an email, speak a
warning, or execute a script.
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JMP Attribute Gage Charts are live llinked for additional exploration of variables.
Agreement counts. In addition to Kappa statistics, JMP gives agreement reports with counts
showing the number correct with each level of the response for each rater, by name.
For some companies, parts arriving off an assembly line which are
incorrectly labeled as “Working” by the inspector are more of a problem
than those labeled “Not Working”
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The Misclassification table. The Misclassification table is particularly useful when you have
more than two possible responses and you’d like to track the misclassifications.
In the call data, you can see that 8 calls were incorrectly sent to the DR group, when they should have
been routed to the DT group.
The platform gives output including graphs and variance components. JMP is only limited by the total
number of levels (232-1).
REML available in variability charts. When data is unbalanced, JMP automatically computes
variance components using REML.
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JMP fits models using the REML method and implements random effects in the general case to allow for
any type of effects, unbalanced data, continuous regressors and random regressors.
In JMP there is one main linear fitting facility that has almost all the features available with any
model. The same facility that supports random effects supports cube plots and multiple com-
parisons and dozens of other features upon request. Learn this single dialog to launch stepwise,
MANOVA, log-variance, nominal logistic, ordinal logistic, parametric survival, and proportional
hazards survival models. You do not have to learn different dialogs to launch models with differ-
ent features.
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Suppose that you have five hard-to-change factors in a fractional factorial whole plot design,
subdivided by two other factors in the split plots. In JMP, you simply specify a high-order
interaction of the whole plot factors as a random effect to absorb the whole plot error, and
everything else is automatic. JMP treats random effect interactions sparsely, making this a rea-
sonable model, matching SAS PROC MIXED.
JMP lets you include fractional factorial whole plots in a split plot analysis.
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Mean-dispersion Models
Sometimes, different factor settings lead to changes in both the mean and variance of the
response. JMP supports a way to model this situation. JMP does a series of EM alternations
of two linear models, one for the mean response, the other for the log of the variance of the
response, and produces maximum likelihood estimates of the models.
Setting Htime = -1 leads to dramatically reduced variability. JMP supports mean dispersion models with its
other model diagnostic tools, like the prediction profiler.
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Nonlinear Regression
JMP has a platform for nonlinear modeling that allows you to build your model by entering
a formula or choosing from a model library. It is a general-purpose facility that is interactive,
produces its own analytic derivatives, use loss functions to do maximum likelihood, calculate
profile-likelihood confidence limits, and more. In fact, in most platforms that offer likelihood-
based estimates, JMP offers profile-likelihood confidence limits, which are much more reliable
than the normal-asymptotic limits. In addition to nonlinear regression, you see these limits in
logistic regression, ordinal logistic regression, parametric survival models, and survival
regression models.
Neural Nets
Often, quadratic models are not adequate to capture the curvature in a response surface.
JMP offers neural nets, a more flexible tool for modeling curvature. This is especially valuable
when there are multiple responses, since neural net models are more parsimonious. JMP pro-
vides controls to tune the behavior of the neural net algorithm, allowing you to match the fit to
your problem.
As with other modeling platforms, Neural Nets have a complete set of tools to explore and
optimize the model.
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These are the clues that can lead to breakthrough discoveries and changes. JMP has a particu-
larly interactive and graphical implementation of recursive partitioning that is easy to use, fast
and powerful up to hundreds of columns, and hundreds of thousands of rows.
JMP presents recursive trees in an interactive, graphical report that gives you control over splitting and
pruning the tree’s nodes.
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Conclusion
JMP was written from scratch with modern graphical interactivity in mind. JMP has made huge
investments in features that matter to engineers and researchers: DOE, modeling, surface
exploration, data exploration, statistical discovery. We have kept our product focused, friendly,
and engaging for the user.
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