Minitab How-tos

Other resources are available in text and video formats. You can search the web of youtube if you like. If you find one that’s really good: Let the instructor know about it.

Youtube

How to construct a histogram

Obtain a histogram.

t-test for a population mean

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvCtNSdymwM

Minitab is used to obtain results for a hypothesis test for a mean (with population standard deviation “sigma” unknown) using the t-test. Start watching at about 2:28. (It might help also to watch the first 13 seconds.) The method described in the first 2.5 minutes is not the one we use.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbiX7LknvRc

Minitab can be used even when you are not given the data –most of the problems in the book – and are only given the sample size, sample mean and sample standard deviation. This makes it possible for you to obtain P-values for any test.


From class (requires an Angel log in – although you won’t actually go into Angel)

Basics for One Variable (histogram, boxplot, and basic descriptive statistics for a single quantitative variable)

Side by Side Boxplots and Descriptive Statistics by Group

T Test for a Mean Using Minitab (also shows how to get a confidence interval . . . 2 different ways)