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340 Part V: Appendices
Figure B.1 The screen that appears first in the Minitab environment.
Getting Started with Minitab
In this chapter we discuss briefly how to use Minitab pull-down menus to analyze
statistical data. Once you log on to your personal computer and get into the
Minitab environment, you will see the picture shown in Figure B.1 on your PC
screen. The pull-down menus appear at the top of the screen.
Menu Commands. Menu commands include:
File Edit Data Calc Stat Graph Editor Tools Window Help
By clicking on any of the above menu commands, we see options included in that
command. For example, if we click on the File menu we get the drop-down menu
as shown in Figure B.2. The New option allows us to create a new worksheet.
Creating a New Worksheet. Creating a new worksheet means to enter new data
in the data window. The data window consists of 4000 columns, which are labeled
C1, C2, . . . , C4000. The data can be entered in one or more columns depending
on the setup of the problem. In each column, immediately below the labels C1,