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#Minitab descriptive statistics how to#
This is valuable because usually the difficult part is how to write the code. This books prints the codes of the macros for the reader to use and study. Often it becomes necessary to write macros (programs) in order to do specific statistical analysis. Each chapter discusses statistical concepts and illustrates the use of Minitab and/or Excel.
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The book is organized in a textbook format.
#Minitab descriptive statistics software#
Excel is a software package that is not dedicated to statistical analysis like Minitab, but it has many statistical features and a very powerful development environment for writing customized statistical analysis. Microsoft Excel 97 was selected because it is one of the most important software packages to learn and most companies use Microsoft Excel. Minitab was chosen because it is powerful and is one of the more user-friendly statistical software packages. This book discusses statistical analysis using two personal computer software packages, Minitab 12 and Microsoft Excel 97. Two of the reasons were: (1) statistical analysis was slow and tedious because calculations were done by hand (2) it was costly because it was done on mainframes and mainframe time was expensive. Previously, statistical analysis was difficult for many reasons. The personal computer has made statistical analysis easier and cheaper.