Description
Open Mintiab and enter in the sample data set onto the Minitab spreadsheet from excel. Use copy paste option but please make sure you label Column1(C1) appropriately as “sample data set” or anything else you want.
Analyze the data using descriptive statistics of Mean, Mode, Median, 25th and 75th Percentiles, variance, standard deviation, interquartile range and range.
- Stats>Basic Statistics>Display Descriptive Statistics
A new dialogue box opens which will let you select your sample data set.
Click on Statistics at the bottom of the dialogue to select only those descriptive statistics which you want for this assignment.
- Graphs>Boxplot>simple
A new dialogue box opens which will let you select the sample data set as the y variable.
Click on options to select only those descriptive statistics you want displayed on the box-plot.
Copy the picture of 1 and 2 above and paste them onto a word file as shown below.
Sample Statistics
| Variable | Mean | St.Dev | Variance | Q1 | Median | Q3 | IQR | Mode | N for Mode |
| Sample Da Set | 14.36 | 18.88 | 356.47 | 2.78 | 6.50 | 31.75 | 28.97 | * | 0 |
