1.

Downloading and Installing JMP

JMP can be installed by SFU students at http://www.sfu.ca/itservices/technical/software.html
The link you want is for JMP 10, either Windows or Mac. (Windows installation shown in this guide). You
may need to login with your SFU credentials when you click on this link.

The page youre now on shows the details of the installation, but theyre also here with screen captures.
The download links are at the bottom. Make sure to download both the installer and the license!

The download of the installer will take about 15 minutes. The license download should be almost
instant.
When the download is complete, open the .zip with WinZip, WinRar, or Windows open file extractor.

Click on setup.exe

You probably dont need any custom settings, so click Next and OK through the setup and wait
through the Installing required components pop-up. Then click Finish.
JMP 10 is now in your start menu.

The first time you open JMP, you will be asked for a license file. Thats the other, smaller file you
downloaded when you downloaded JMP. Click Open License to find it, it should be a text file called
JMP10_99P392_70077534_win_X64.txt

When youve opened the txt, it will ask if you want to personalize the license. Theres no need to do this
so just click OK. Then it will ask you to save a jmp.per file. Thats your personal license file; save it
wherever you wish.

Finally, it will ask you to customize your menus to your speciality. We want menus as simple as possible,
so I recommend selecting Check None, and then OK at the bottom of this huge pop-up.

and were in!

This is what the home window looks like when JMP is running.

2. Getting datasets for this textbook

Go to: http://bcs.whfreeman.com/bps6e/
Under BROWSE BY CATEGORY, choose Data Sets

Select either JMP, PC-Text, or Mac-Text. Each of these is a .zip file containing all of the datasets used in
the textbook. Use WinZip/WinRar/Windows extractor to extract the datasets into a folder.

3. Working with JMP

Loading data
1. In the home window, which is the one that opens when you start JMP, go to File Open

2. Choose your file. In this case choose the dataset studytimes (either studytimes.jmp or
studytimes.txt in the chapter 1 folder of the datasets you downloaded from above)
3. A window with the study times dataset, described on pages 33 for exercise 1.38. If a new
window does not appear, click on Studytimes.jmp in recent files or in window list in the JMP home
window.
This is what the dataset window looks like:

Data Types
The type that each data is, and how it is to be handled, is not always included in the data. This is
especially true if youre using a generic format like .txt or .csv. JMP will make its best guess at the
format of data from the data itself. Its useful to check if its right.
1. In the studytimes data window, right click on the top of the Sex column, and choose
column info.

2. The data type is Character, which means that JMP is treating the Sex data as if it were
names or words. It is, so thats good.
3. The modeling type is currently nominal. That means its a category and theres no natural
ordering to the category. Also good. JMP usually assumes data with letters in it is Character and
Nominal. If you want something to be treated as ordinal, you have to specify a variable that way
yourself in the column info pop-up, and click Apply.

The icon next to a variable tells you its type: Nominal (categorical, no order), Ordinal (categorical,
ordered), and Continuous (a countable or measurable number).

Bar chart
1. Go to Graph Chart
2. Select Sex from the select variables box, and drag it into the Categories, X, Levels box.
Notice that you cant drag it into the statistics box. Thats because Sex is a nominal variable, and there
are no meaningful summary stats for nominal variables, except for mode.
3. Click OK.
Now you have a simple bar chart. It shows the number of each group in the data. There are 30 females
and 30 males, so both the bars are the same height.
4. You can change the name of the category axis by clicking on the word sex.
5. You can change the title of this chart by clicking on the word Chart at the top, above the
bars.
6. To save this chart to a picture or word document, first you have to open up the menu thats
hiding right above the title but below the top window frame.

When that window is open, select Tools and the

icon, called the Select tool. Your mouse icon
will change. Click on all the parts you want in your report and then and copy/paste into a word
document.

Chart Options
Charts should have proper titles and labels. Proper means that a reader can tell what the chart is by
looking at it even if they havent seen the original data.
Labels can be changed clicking on them and typing in a new label.

Titles can be changed by clicking on them and typing in a new title

Titles can also be added in word after copy/pasting the chart image.

Pie Charts
1. From the studytimes dataset window again, go to Graph Chart again, and move Sex to
the Categories, X, Levels box.
2. In the Options in the lower-left, where it currently says Bar Chart, change that to Pie Chart,
and click OK.

3. Use the red triangle

total.

icon, next to Chart and choose Label Options Label by percent of

4. Change the labels and title as you would in a bar chart.

Pie Charts of Continuous, and why they dont work

1. Use Graph Chart to build a pie chart of the variable study, which stands for minutes of
study per night. Minutes of study is a continuous variable. See what happens? The pie chart sets each
different value as a category, but in a continuous variable, every value could be different, so you could
end up with hundreds of categories in a meaningless pie chart.

Histogram
1. In the studytimes dataset window again, go to Analyze Distribution
2.Put Study in Y, Columns section, and click OK.

3. Use the red triangle

icon, next to Study and un-check Histogram Options Vertical to
change the histogram to horizontal.
4. Use the red triangle icon next to Study and un-check Outlier Box Plot to remove the extra part of
the histogram image on the top.
5. Use the red triangle icon next to Study and un-check Display Options Quantiles, and Display
Options Summary Statistics to get rid of the additional info at the bottom.
6. Use that menu again and check Histogram Options Count Axis to add a bar on the right for counts.
You can also add Histogram Show Counts if you think it makes the histogram more clear.
7. Click and drag the corner of the plot itself to make it the size you want.
8. Copy/Paste the Histogram into Word as you did with the Bar and Pie Charts, and make sure to add a
title explaining what the histogram is, a label for the horizontal axis so readers can know what the
variable in question is, and a one-sentence summary of the histograms distribution.

4. How to be successful in this course.

Statistics is a lot more like a craft than a lot of university topics. You can get a start by reading
the textbook, but the best way to learn statistics is to actually do it. That means hammering away at
exercises and playing with data, in this case with the help of JMP.
Dont fall behind, and preferably stay ahead. This course moves from being word-concept heavy
to formula based at about the halfway point. Its a substantial jump in difficulty, but theres no way to
avoid it. The best way to protect your grade is to read ahead, and attempt problems a full week ahead of
whats being covered in class. This is especially true because the lectures are three hours long, and
nobody can learn effectively for three solid hours. Its much easier to have already seen the material on
your own terms and let the lectures be a review.
The midterm will be on concepts like knowing the difference between the mean and the
median, and knowing the difference between a nominal, ordinal, and an interval variable. The final
exam will be more