Whats New in Minitab 17

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Welcome to Minitab 17!

Minitab 17 offers numerous new features and enhancements including improvements to:
Assistant Regression and GLM DOE

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Top The Enhancements Assistant

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Making Data Analysis Even Easier

Over the years, customers have told us:
I dont know which tool to use The dialogs are too technical

Minitab has too many options

I need help interpreting my results

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Graphs
Control Charts Capability

ASSISTANT

DOE

Regression

MSA

Hypothesis Tests

Designed for Green/Black Belts, occasional users, and those who are new to statistics or Minitab
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Assistant for DOE

DOE easier than ever Most requested Assistant feature

Screening designs

6-15 factors

2-5 factors

Modeling 2 designs (x & x2)

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Improved Graphical Analysis

Easier Dialogs + More Extensive Output

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Assistant for Multiple Regression

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Top Regression Enhancements & GLM

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Easily specify factors

Automatic model selection

Regression

Binary Logistic
GLM

More graphs
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Response optimizer

Graphs include Binary Fitted Line Plot

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Design Top Enhancements of Experiments

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Automatic model selection

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Response Optimizer for General Factorial Designs (>2 levels)

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Response Surface with Categorical Xs

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 Box-Cox for Factorial and RS Non-hierarchical models

Effects, main effects and interaction plots can display all terms, including terms removed from model
Cube plots of fitted values available for reduced models Response optimizer:
Constraints for Factorial and RS Doesnt require min/max value Provides CI and PI tables
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Additional AdditionalFeatures Features

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 Assistant enhancements throughout

Stacked data option for 2-sample tests Chi-Square Goodness-of-Fit up to 12 levels (from 6) Capability analysis for unequal subgroup sizes Before/after control charts, plus Laney charts And more

Bubble Plots
Graph multiple variables in a 2D space

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 Outlier Tests - Grubbs and Dixons

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Poisson Regression

y = f (x)

Model count data (Y), typically low counts/rare events

Examples: number of machine failures or C-sections per time period Historical application
In 1898, Ladislaus Bortkiewiczs investigation of the number of Prussian army soldiers killed by horse kicks

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 Equivalence Tests to determine if mean(s) are similar enough to be considered equivalent

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 Stability Studies
Pharmaceuticals Determine shelf-life

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One-Way ANOVA
Stacked and unstacked all-in-one menu
Welchs method
For unequal variances First introduced in Minitab 16 Assistant

Comparisons graphs

Note: No Two-Way ANOVA menu

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Chi-Square Tests
Chi-Square Test for Association

New name for Two-Way Table Raw or summarized data for 2-way tables Specify Session labels for 2-way tables

2 C

Cross Tab and Chi-Square

Raw or summarized/table data McNemars Test for 2x2 paired proportions

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 Round date/time

Updated graph style and symbols

Updated worksheet font and column formula/model symbols, plus Missing indicator for text columns

Minitab in Portuguese
Plus English, French, Spanish, German, Simplified Chinese, Korean and Japanese (8 languages)

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February 18 Launch
Minitab 17 Analyze your data

Quality Trainer Learn statistics online

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Questions?
Michelle Paret mparet@minitab.com

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