Summary of Minitab Commands

Graphical Displays

Bar Graphs - Graph > Chart
Pie Charts - Graph > Pie Chart
Dotplot - Graph > Dotplot
Histograms - Graph > Histogram
Stemplots - Graph > Stem-and-leaf
Boxplots - Graph > Boxplot

Describing and Summarizing Data

Mean, trimmed mean, median, standard deviation, quartiles, 5 number summary

Stat > Basic Statistics > Display Descriptive Statistics

Sorting - Data > Sort
Ranking - Data > Rank
Stacking - Data > Stack
Unstacking - Data > Unstack
Creating New Variables - Calc > Calculator

Generating Random Numbers

Calc > Random Data

Binomial Distributions - Calc > Probability Distributions Binomial

Probability - P(B=b)
Cumulative Probability - P(B<=b)
Inverse Cumulative Probability - Find percentiles

Uniform Distributions - Calc > Probability Distributions Uniform

Probability Density - height of probability density curve
Cumulative Probability - P(U<=u)
Inverse Cumulative Probability - Find percentiles

Normal Distributions - Calc > Probability Distributions Normal

Probability Density - height of probability density curve
Cumulative Probability - P(Z<=z)
Inverse Cumulative Probability - Find percentiles

Generating Random Numbers - Calc > Random Data

Confidence Intervals and Hypothesis Tests for a Population Mean

Stat > Basic Statistics > 1 Sample Z

Confidence Intervals and Hypothesis Tests for a Population Mean

Stat > Basic Statistics > 1-Sample t

Confidence Intervals and Hypothesis Tests for a Population Median

Stat > Nonparametrics > 1-Sample Sign

Confidence Intervals and Hypothesis Tests for Paired Data

Stat > Basic Stats > Paired t

OR

Form differences (post-pre, before-after, second-first, etc.) and then use the one sample procedures on the differences.

Stat > Basic Statistics > 1-Sample t

OR

Stat > Nonparametrics > 1-Sample Sign

Confidence Intervals and Hypothesis Tests for Two Means

Stat > Basic Statistics > 2-Sample t

Confidence Intervals and Hypothesis Tests for Two Medians

Stat > Nonparametrics > Mann-Whitney

Confidence Intervals and Hypothesis Tests for a Population Proportion

Stat > Basic Statistics > 1 Proportion

Confidence Intervals and Hypothesis Tests for Two Population Proportions

Stat > Basic Statistics > 2 Proportions

Hypothesis Tests for Association or Equal Proportions

Stat > Tables > Cross Tabulation and Chi-square

OR

Stat > Tables > Chi-square Test

Linear Regression Model

Stat > Regression > Regression