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Giving Thanks for the Minitab Assistant
This week we’re celebrating the annual Thanksgiving holiday in the United States, which is not only a good time to reflect on the things we’re grateful for, but it’s also a good time to stuff yourself...
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Creating a Chart to Compare Month-to-Month Change
Minitab's LinkedIn group is a good place to ask questions and get input from people with experience analyzing data and doing statistics in a wide array of professions. For example, one member asked...
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A Six Sigma Master Black Belt in the Kitchen
by Matt Barsalou, guest bloggerI know that Thanksgiving is always on the last Thursday in November, but somehow I failed to notice it was fast approaching until the Monday before Thanksgiving. This led...
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The Joy of Playing in Endless Backyards with Statistics
Dear Readers,As 2016 comes to a close, it’s time to reflect on the passage of time and changes. As I’m sure you’ve guessed, I love statistics and analyzing data! I also love talking and writing about...
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Common Assumptions about Data Part 3: Stability and Measurement Systems
In Parts 1 and 2 of this blog series, I wrote about how statistical inference uses data from a sample of individuals to reach conclusions about the whole population. That’s a very powerful tool, but...
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The Difference Between Right-, Left- and Interval-Censored Data
Reliability analysis is the perfect tool for calculating the proportion of items that you can expect to survive for a specified period of time under identical operating conditions. Light bulbs—or...
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Creating Charts to Compare Month-to-Month Change, part 2
A member of Minitab's LinkedIn group asked how to create a chart to monitor change by month, specifically comparing last year's data to this year's data. My last post showed how to do this using an...
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O Tannenbomb: Water Your Tree to Avoid Unwanted Holiday Lighting Displays
It's that time of year again. The time when eggs get nogged, pudding gets figgy, and it becomes socially acceptable to speak in rhyme. So on that note, and with apologies to Clement Clarke Moore, I...
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How Effective Are Flu Shots?
Once again, with the arrival of autumn, it's time for a flu shot.I get a flu shot every year even though I know they’re not perfect. I figure they’re a relatively easy and inexpensive way to reduce the...
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The Joy of Playing in Endless Backyards with Statistics
Dear Readers,As 2016 comes to a close, it’s time to reflect on the passage of time and changes. As I’m sure you’ve guessed, I love statistics and analyzing data! I also love talking and writing about...
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DMAIC Tools and Techniques: The Define Phase
If you’re familiar with Lean Six Sigma, then you’re familiar with DMAIC.DMAIC is the acronym for Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve and Control. This proven problem-solving strategy provides a...
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How to Explore Interactions with Line Plots
The line plot is an incredibly agile but frequently overlooked tool in the quest to better understand your processes.In any process, whether it's baking a cake or processing loan forms, many factors...
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Snowy Statistics!
As we enter late December, snow is falling here on the East Coast of the United States. The official start to winter is on December 21, 2016, but it’s certainly not uncommon to see snowflakes flying...
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Holiday Greetings Puzzle From Minitab
For all you creative and fun-loving folks out there, in this blog post I'm going to share a puzzle instead of a story or lesson. The holiday season is getting into full swing here in the United States,...
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3 Tips for Getting Your Minitab Graphs Presentation-Ready
Want to learn some simple tricks for preparing your graphs for presentation—specifically, how to add footnotes to your graphs, display your graphs in one layout, and add objects (shapes, text, etc.) to...
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17 Common Words with Precise Statistical Meanings...or, More Bewildering...
The language of statistics is a funny thing, but there usually isn't much to laugh at in the consequences that can follow when misunderstandings occur between statisticians and non-statisticians. We...
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How to Make Your Statistical Software Fit You Perfectly
Did you ever get a pair of jeans or a shirt that you liked, but didn't quite fit you perfectly? That happened to me a few months ago. The jeans looked good, and they were very well made, but it took a...
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It’s Hard to Go 0-16: The 2016 Cleveland Browns Story
In week 16 of the 2016 NFL season, the Cleveland Browns were able to avoid going into the history books as only the second team to finish the season 0-16. They claimed their first and only win of the...
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It’s Hard to Go 0-16: The 2016 Cleveland Browns Story
In week 16 of the 2016 NFL season, the Cleveland Browns were able to avoid going into the history books as only the second team to finish the season 0-16. They claimed their first and only win of the...
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Using Value Order to Create More Meaningful Output
When you’re working in Minitab and prepping your data for analysis, it’s common to group data into categories that imply a specific order, such as Low, Medium, High or Beginning, Middle, End.But if the...
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