Review of Minitab Commands for Exam 1

Chapter 1

Displaying Data

Histograms - Graph > Histogram
Stemplots - Graph > Stem-and-leaf
Boxplots - Graph > Boxplot
Time plots - Graph > Time series plot OR Graph > Plot

Describing Data

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

Stat > Basic Statistics > Display Descriptive Statistics

Normal Distributions

Calculations - Calc > Probability Distributions > Normal
Assessing Normality - Graph > Probability Plot
Random Data - Calc > Random Data > Normal

Chapter 2

Association and relationship between 2 quantitative variables

Scatterplots - Graph > Plot
Correlation - Stat > Basic Statistics > Correlation

Fitting a line to data

Least squares regression line - Stat > Regression > Regression
Scatterplot with regression line - Stat > Regression > Fitted Line Plot