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Minitab Statistical Software gives you the tools you need to analyze your data and make informed decisions about how to improve your business. Its power and ease of use make it the leading package used for quality improvement and statistics education worldwide.
Minitab 15 contains nearly 50 enhancements with minimal changes to the interface, making it simple for current users to access all the new features. Highlights include:
Assign formulas to columns in the worksheet
Expanded Gage R&R capabilities
Power (OC) curves for power and sample size
Probability Distribution Plot
New Reliability methods for forecasting future warranty claims
Minitab 15 Features Overview
Minitab 15 is simple to use for the beginning or occasional user, but also contains the depth and breadth of tools and guidance to satisfy even the most rigorous quality improvement projects. Here's an outline of the many features you'll find in this release:
Easy to Use: Minitab's logical interface makes it simple to use, and its outstanding support features make it easy to get results.
State of the Art Graphs and Graph Editing: Clear, bold graphs are simple to create for any application, with intuitive point and click editing.
Regression Analyses: Linear, polynomial, logistic, PLS and more detect and define relationships.
Statistical Process Control: Take control of your processes with this suite of control charts and more.
Measurement Systems Analysis: Gage analyses and related tools to ensure the quality of your data.
Reliability/Survival Analysis: Calculate the lifespan of the products you use or sell, predict failure rates, establish warranty parameters, and more.
Multivariate Analysis: Principal component analysis, cluster analysis, and other multidimensional tools.
Data and File Management: Minitab accepts data in many file formats and keeps your work tidy in a single, automatically organized project file.
General Statistics: A broad range of simple yet powerful tools to help you to make quick assessments and comparisons.
Analysis of Variance: A comprehensive set of tools including ANOVA, GLM, Analysis of Means, and more.
Quality Tools: Ensure your processes meet your expectations with Process Capability analyses, Pareto charts, and other powerful tools.
Design of Experiments: A wide variety of available designs – now including D-optimal and distance based designs.
Power and Sample Size: Collect the right amount of data for your situation – use power curves to visualize the relationship between the sample size and power.
Time Series and Forecasting: Large collection of time-related analyses, like trend analysis and decomposition. Now with auto, partial, and cross correlations.
Tables: Chi-square, Fisher's exact, and other table-based tools.
Macros and Customizability: Automate the analysis you perform regularly, customize menus and settings, even integrate with Minitab COM objects.
The Top 15 Enhancements in Minitab 15:
Assign a Formula to a Column or Stored Constant; Columns Update When Data in the Worksheets Change: One of our most frequently requested features, linking formulas to columns or constants not only saves time, but also makes Minitab even easier for users who are accustomed to using spreadsheet software.
Multiple Undo/Redo in Data Window: Undo mistakes and redo changes in the Data window. In prior releases, you could undo/redo one step back. In Minitab 15 you can undo/redo many steps back.
Enhanced Calculations Capabilities: Minitab 15 includes more than 40 new calculator functions, including 23 for manipulating text. New workday, weekend, and holiday designations help you with elapsed time calculations. Percentiles and the geometric mean can now be calculated as well.
New Currency and Percentage Formats for Data: Minitab now displays currency and percentage symbols on data in the Data window, on graphs, and output tables.
Password Protection for Project Files: Password protect Minitab project files for added security, or simply to prevent important information from being accidentally altered.
Power (OC) Curves for Power and Sample Size: New graphs help you examine the prospective sample space and choose the optimal sample size, with the desired power and detection goal.
Easily Generate Your Gage R&R Worksheet: Generate a data collection worksheet based on your specific Gage R&R study.
Type 1 Gage Study: Evaluate the bias, repeatability, and capability of your measurement system on a single part.
Gage R&R: Probability of a False Answer: Examine the probability of passing a defective product (consumer’s risk) or of failing a good product (producer’s risk).
Acceptance Sampling: Use this new method to help answer the question, "How many units should I test before deciding whether to accept or reject delivered materials?" You can use Acceptance Sampling with either attributes or variables data.
Optimal General Factorial Designs: Select an optimal design to reduce the number of experimental runs in a general full factorial design, or to evaluate or improve optimality of an existing general factorial design.
Probability Distribution Plot: View the shape of a distribution, visually compare two distributions, or display the shapes of a distribution with varying parameters. In addition, you can view the area under a distribution curve that corresponds to either a given probability or x value. This new plot is a useful visualization tool for teaching as well as for applied analysis.
Warranty Analysis: New reliability methods allow you to forecast future warranty claims or returns based on current warranty data.
Powerful Customization Capabilities: Use MyMenu to customize Minitab's interface, for example, to create dialog boxes that run macros that your company has created. Use Minitab Automation to integrate Minitab COM objects into your specialized applications, making Minitab a powerful statistical and graphical engine.
Improved Glossary: With many new definitions added, the Minitab 15 Glossary now includes 526 definitions, written in a practical, easy-to-understand way.
System Requirements
Operating System - Microsoft Windows 2000 or XP, or Vista.
Hard Disk Space - 125 MB free space available
Processor - Pentium II or equivalent processor
RAM - 256 MB or more
Screen Resolution - 1024 x 768 or higher
Adobe Acrobat Reader - Version 5.0 or higher required for Meet Minitab
Minitab 15 contains nearly 50 enhancements with minimal changes to the interface, making it simple for current users to access all the new features. Highlights include:
Minitab 15 Features Overview
Minitab 15 is simple to use for the beginning or occasional user, but also contains the depth and breadth of tools and guidance to satisfy even the most rigorous quality improvement projects. Here's an outline of the many features you'll find in this release:
Easy to Use: Minitab's logical interface makes it simple to use, and its outstanding support features make it easy to get results.
State of the Art Graphs and Graph Editing: Clear, bold graphs are simple to create for any application, with intuitive point and click editing.
Regression Analyses: Linear, polynomial, logistic, PLS and more detect and define relationships.
Statistical Process Control: Take control of your processes with this suite of control charts and more.
Measurement Systems Analysis: Gage analyses and related tools to ensure the quality of your data.
Reliability/Survival Analysis: Calculate the lifespan of the products you use or sell, predict failure rates, establish warranty parameters, and more.
Multivariate Analysis: Principal component analysis, cluster analysis, and other multidimensional tools.
Data and File Management: Minitab accepts data in many file formats and keeps your work tidy in a single, automatically organized project file.
General Statistics: A broad range of simple yet powerful tools to help you to make quick assessments and comparisons.
Analysis of Variance: A comprehensive set of tools including ANOVA, GLM, Analysis of Means, and more.
Quality Tools: Ensure your processes meet your expectations with Process Capability analyses, Pareto charts, and other powerful tools.
Design of Experiments: A wide variety of available designs – now including D-optimal and distance based designs.
Power and Sample Size: Collect the right amount of data for your situation – use power curves to visualize the relationship between the sample size and power.
Time Series and Forecasting: Large collection of time-related analyses, like trend analysis and decomposition. Now with auto, partial, and cross correlations.
Tables: Chi-square, Fisher's exact, and other table-based tools.
Macros and Customizability: Automate the analysis you perform regularly, customize menus and settings, even integrate with Minitab COM objects.
Assign a Formula to a Column or Stored Constant; Columns Update When Data in the Worksheets Change: One of our most frequently requested features, linking formulas to columns or constants not only saves time, but also makes Minitab even easier for users who are accustomed to using spreadsheet software.
Multiple Undo/Redo in Data Window: Undo mistakes and redo changes in the Data window. In prior releases, you could undo/redo one step back. In Minitab 15 you can undo/redo many steps back.
Enhanced Calculations Capabilities: Minitab 15 includes more than 40 new calculator functions, including 23 for manipulating text. New workday, weekend, and holiday designations help you with elapsed time calculations. Percentiles and the geometric mean can now be calculated as well.
New Currency and Percentage Formats for Data: Minitab now displays currency and percentage symbols on data in the Data window, on graphs, and output tables.
Password Protection for Project Files: Password protect Minitab project files for added security, or simply to prevent important information from being accidentally altered.
Power (OC) Curves for Power and Sample Size: New graphs help you examine the prospective sample space and choose the optimal sample size, with the desired power and detection goal.
Easily Generate Your Gage R&R Worksheet: Generate a data collection worksheet based on your specific Gage R&R study.
Type 1 Gage Study: Evaluate the bias, repeatability, and capability of your measurement system on a single part.
Gage R&R: Probability of a False Answer: Examine the probability of passing a defective product (consumer’s risk) or of failing a good product (producer’s risk).
Acceptance Sampling: Use this new method to help answer the question, "How many units should I test before deciding whether to accept or reject delivered materials?" You can use Acceptance Sampling with either attributes or variables data.
Optimal General Factorial Designs: Select an optimal design to reduce the number of experimental runs in a general full factorial design, or to evaluate or improve optimality of an existing general factorial design.
Probability Distribution Plot: View the shape of a distribution, visually compare two distributions, or display the shapes of a distribution with varying parameters. In addition, you can view the area under a distribution curve that corresponds to either a given probability or x value. This new plot is a useful visualization tool for teaching as well as for applied analysis.
Warranty Analysis: New reliability methods allow you to forecast future warranty claims or returns based on current warranty data.
Powerful Customization Capabilities: Use MyMenu to customize Minitab's interface, for example, to create dialog boxes that run macros that your company has created. Use Minitab Automation to integrate Minitab COM objects into your specialized applications, making Minitab a powerful statistical and graphical engine.
Improved Glossary: With many new definitions added, the Minitab 15 Glossary now includes 526 definitions, written in a practical, easy-to-understand way.
System Requirements