MINITAB Manual For Introduction ToThe Practice of Statistics
[Pages:256]MINITAB Manual For
David Moore and George McCabe's
Introduction To The Practice of Statistics
Michael Evans
University of Toronto
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Contents
Preface
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I Minitab for Data Management
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1 Manual Overview and Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2 Accessing and Exiting Minitab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
3 Files Used by Minitab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
4 Getting Help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
5 The Worksheet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
6 Minitab Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
7 Entering Data into a Worksheet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
7.1 Importing Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
7.2 Patterned Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
7.3 Printing Data in the Session Window . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
7.4 Assigning Constants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
7.5 Naming Variables and Constants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
7.6 Information about a Worksheet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
7.7 Editing a Worksheet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
8 Saving, Retrieving, and Printing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
9 Mathematical Operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
9.1 Arithmetical Operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
9.2 Mathematical Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
9.3 Comparisons and Logical Operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
9.4 Column and Row Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
9.5 Sorting Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
9.6 Computing Ranks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
10 Exercises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
II Minitab for Data Analysis
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1 Looking at Data?Distributions
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1.1 Tabulating and Summarizing Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
1.1.1 Tallying Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
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1.1.2 Describing Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 1.2 Plotting Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
1.2.1 Stem-and-Leaf Plots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 1.2.2 Histograms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 1.2.3 Boxplots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 1.2.4 Bar Charts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 1.2.5 Pie Charts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 1.2.6 Time Series Plots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 1.3 The Normal Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 1.3.1 Calculating the Density . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 1.3.2 Calculating the Distribution Function . . . . . . . . . . . 59 1.3.3 Calculating the Inverse Distribution Function . . . . . . . 60 1.3.4 Normal Probability Plots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 1.4 Exercises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
2 Looking at Data?Relationships
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2.1 Scatterplots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
2.2 Correlations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
2.3 Regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
2.4 Transformations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
2.5 Exercises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
3 Producing Data
77
3.1 Generating a Random Sample . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
3.2 Sampling from Distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
3.3 Exercises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
4 Probability: The Study of Randomness
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4.1 Basic Probability Calculations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
4.2 More on Sampling from Distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
4.3 Simulation for Approximating Probabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
4.4 Simulation for Approximating Means . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
4.5 Exercises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
5 Sampling Distributions
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5.1 The Binomial Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
5.2 Simulating Sampling Distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
5.3 Exercises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
6 Introduction to Inference
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6.1 z Con?dence Intervals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
6.2 z Tests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
6.3 Simulations for Con?dence Intervals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
6.4 Power Calculations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
6.5 The Chi-Square Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
6.6 Exercises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
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7 Inference for Distributions
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7.1 The Student Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
7.2 t Con?dence Intervals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
7.3 t Tests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
7.4 The Sign Test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
7.5 Comparing Two Samples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
7.6 The F Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
7.7 Exercises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
8 Inference for Proportions
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8.1 Inference for a Single Proportion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
8.2 Inference for Two Proportions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
8.3 Exercises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
9 Inference for Two-Way Tables
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9.1 Tabulating and Plotting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
9.2 The Chi-square Test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
9.3 Analyzing Tables of Counts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
9.4 Exercises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
10 Inference for Regression
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10.1 Simple Regression Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
10.2 Exercises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
11 Multiple Regression
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11.1 Example of a Multiple Regression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
11.2 Exercises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160
12 One-Way Analysis of Variance
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12.1 A Categorical Variable and a Quantitative Variable . . . . . . . . 163
12.2 One-Way Analysis of Variance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
12.3 Exercises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172
13 Two-Way Analysis of Variance
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13.1 The Two-Way ANOVA Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
13.2 Exercises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
14 Bootstrap Methods and Permutation Tests
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14.1 Bootstrap Sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182
14.2 Permutation Tests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
14.3 Exercises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189
15 Nonparametric Tests
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15.1 The Wilcoxon Rank Sum Procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
15.2 The Wilcoxon Signed Rank Procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
15.3 The Kruskal-Wallis Test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194
15.4 Exercises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195
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16 Logistic Regression
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16.1 The Logistic Regression Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197
16.2 Example . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198
16.3 Exercises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200
17 Statistics for Quality: Control and Capability
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17.1 Producing x? Charts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203
17.2 Producing S Charts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
17.3 Producing p Charts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208
17.4 Exercises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210
A Projects
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B Functions in Minitab
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B.1 Mathematical Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215
B.2 Column Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216
B.3 Row Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217
C More Minitab Commands
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C.1 Coding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219
C.2 Concatenating Columns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220
C.3 Converting Data Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221
C.4 History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222
C.5 Stacking and Unstacking Columns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223
D Programming in Minitab
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D.1 Global Macros . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225
D.2 Control Statements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226
D.3 Startup Macro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230
D.4 Interactive Macros . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230
D.5 Local Macros . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231
E Matrix Algebra in Minitab
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E.1 Creating Matrices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234
E.2 Commands for Matrix Operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238
Index
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Preface
This Minitab manual is to be used as an accompaniment to Introduction to the Practice of Statistics, Fifth Edition, by David S. Moore and George P. McCabe, and to the CD-ROM that accompanies this text. We abbreviate the textbook title as IPS. It can be used with either Minitab Student Version 14, Minitab Version 14 or Minitab Version 13 running under Windows. The text is based on Minitab Student Version 14 and Minitab Version 14, but we have also indicated in the manual wherever there are differences with Minitab Version 13, in the way these versions work. The core of the manual is a discussion of the menu commands while not neglecting to refer to the session commands, as these are needed for certain problems. The material on session commands is always at the end of each section and can be skipped if the reader will de?nitely not be using them. We have provided some Exercises for each chapter.
Minitab is a statistical software package that was designed especially for the teaching of introductory statistics courses. It is our view that an easy-to-use statistical software package is a vital and signi?cant component of such a course. This permits the student to focus on statistical concepts and thinking rather than computations or the learning of a statistical package. The main aim of any introductory statistics course should always be the "why" of statistics rather than technical details that do little to stimulate the majority of students or, in our opinion, do little to reinforce the key concepts. IPS succeeds admirably in communicating the important basic foundations of statistical thinking, and it is hoped that this manual serves as a useful adjunct to the text.
It is natural to ask why Minitab is advocated for the course. In the author's experience, ease of learning and use are the salient features of the package, with obvious bene?ts to the student and to the instructor, who can relegate many details to the software. While more sophisticated packages are necessary for higher-level professional work, it is our experience that attempting to teach one of these in a course forces too much attention on technical aspects. The time students need to spend to learn Minitab is relatively small and it is a great virtue. Further Minitab will serve as a perfectly adequate tool for many of the statistical problems students will encounter in their undergraduate education.
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This manual is divided into two parts. Part I is an introduction that provides the necessary details to start using Minitab and, in particular, how to use worksheets. We recommend reading Part I before starting to use Minitab. Overall, the introductory Part I serves as a reference for most of the nonstatistical commands in Minitab.
Part II follows the structure of the textbook. Each chapter is titled and numbered as in IPS. The last two chapters are not in IPS but correspond to optional material included on the CD-ROM. The Minitab commands relevant to doing the problems in each IPS chapter are introduced and their use illustrated. Each chapter concludes with a set of exercises, some of which are modi?cations of or related to problems in IPS and many of which are new and speci?cally designed to ensure that the relevant Minitab material has been understood. There are also appendices dealing with some more advanced features of Minitab, such as programming in Minitab and matrix algebra.
This manual does not attempt a complete coverage of Minitab. Rather, we introduce and discuss those concepts in Minitab that we feel are most relevant for a student studying introductory statistics with IPS. We do introduce some concepts that are, strictly speaking, not necessary for solving the problems in IPS where we feel that they were likely to prove useful in a large number of data analysis problems encountered outside the classroom. While the manual's primary goal is to teach Minitab, generally we want to help develop strong data analytic skills in conjunction with the text and the CD-ROM.
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