Welcome to Minitab 17!

Minitab 17 offers numerous new

features and enhancements including
improvements to:

The Assistant
Regression and GLM
DOE
And more…

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 TopThe
Enhancements
Assistant

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 Making Data Analysis Even Easier
► Over the years, customers have told us:

“I don’t “The dialogs

know which are too
tool to use” technical”

“Minitab has “I need help

too many interpreting
options” my results”

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 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

6-15 factors

2-5 factors 2

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 What value does it provide?

►Customers are already using DOE in core Minitab

►However, users really struggle with DOE:

• Choosing the appropriate design
• Analyzing the data is not always straightforward

►Easier for our users to:

• Plan and create experiments
• Analyze the data
• Conduct residuals analysis
• Find optimal settings

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 Assistant for Multiple Regression

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 What value does it provide?

►Regression is used everywhere

►Customers liked Minitab 16 Assistant, but only for 1X

►Easier for our users to:

• Find significant factors
• Conduct residuals analysis
• Identify outliers
• Find optimal settings

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 Improved Graphical Analysis
Easier Dialogs +
More Extensive Output

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 What value does it provide?

►Better dialogs – e.g. shows categorical samples

►Diagnostic reports with guidance

►Report card with next steps

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 Top Enhancements
Regression & GLM

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 What value does it provide?

►CONSISTENCY across regression and GLM

►Better workflow (e.g. stepwise > model fitting), plus new model dialog and “view
model”

►More statistical features:

• Automatic model selection
• Prediction
• And more!

►More graphical features

• Factorial, contour and surface plots plus response optimizer

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 Binary Fitted Line Plot + other graphs

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 Top Enhancements
Design 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
Factors

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 DOE dialog changes
• Alpha moved from Graphs to Options, called “Confidence level”

• Box-Cox for Factorial and RS

• Effects, main effects and interaction plots display all terms, includes
excluded terms

• Cube plots of fitted values available for reduced models

• Response optimizer changes:

– Factorial allows for constraints
– Doesn’t require min/max value
– Only displays composite desirability for >1 X
– Provides CI and PI tables

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 Additional
AdditionalFeatures
Features

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 ► Assistant
• 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 Dixon’s

►Poisson Regression
• Model count data (Y), typically low counts/rare events
• Examples: number of machine failures, C-sections

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 Poisson Regression
f (x) = y
►Practical application
In 1898, Ladislaus Bortkiewicz’s investigation of the number of
Prussian army soldiers killed by horse kicks

►Example
Residents in rural Tanzania are being attacked by lions,
frequently resulting in severe injury and death

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 Y
Lunar Cycle Days

Xs
Above/Below Horizon

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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

► Welch’s method
• For unequal variances
• First introduced in Minitab 16 Assistant

► Comparisons graphs

► Games-Howell comparisons method for unequal variances

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Chi-Square Tests

► Chi-Square Test for Association

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• No longer “Two-Way Table…”
• Raw or summarized data for 2-way tables
• Can specify Session labels for 2-way tables

► Cross Tab and Chi-Square

• Raw or summarized/table data
• McNemar’s Test for 2x2 paired proportions

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 ► Round date/time

► Updated graph style and symbols

- New colors and fonts

► 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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 Additional Features
Details to Note

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 ► Tooltips for all menus

► Graphs no longer editable in Word or PowerPoint

► EDA menu no longer displayed by default

► New hypothesis test dialogs and output symbols

► Unstacked data option for Test for Equal Variances

► 2 Variances – graphical output, Bonett’s

► Correlation – added Spearman’s

► Balanced & General MANOVA combined into 1 dialog

► Manage Profiles includes DMAIC (Assistant)

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 ► Gage R&R default alpha for part*operator = 0.05

► Control Charts default stdev

• Rbar & Sbar default method for any charts that include R or S charts (Xbar by itself
uses pooled)

► Capability
• Overall statistics now provided 1st

• Control charts default stdev change affects Sixpack

► Tolerance Interval graph includes achieved confidence for nonparametric method

► Reliability default estimation method now maximum likelihood

► PSS for Equivalence Tests and Tolerance Intervals

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 February 18 Launch

Minitab 17
Analyze your data

Quality Trainer
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 Questions?

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