Documentation for MINITAB® Release 14 for Windows®
To help you use MINITAB most effectively, we offer a wide range of
documentation products:
Meet MINITAB is a concise guide to help you quickly get started
using MINITAB. It shows you how to:
- Manage and manipulate data and files
- Produce graphs
- Analyze data and assess quality
- Design an experiment
- Generate reports
- Customize your MINITAB software
- Access the Help files provided with MINITAB
It also includes a thorough and easy-to-use reference section.
You can download a free electronic copy of Meet
MINITAB (PDF) or Contact Us to
order a hard copy (book version) of the guide. Meet MINITAB is also
available to download in French
and German.
MINITAB Help is a comprehensive and easily accessible source of
information available in MINITAB. It offers:
- Complete menu and dialog box documentation
- Concise overviews of major statistical topics
- Easy-to-follow examples
- Guidance for setting up your data
- Information on calculations and methods
- A dynamic glossary
For those who prefer entering command language rather than using the
menus and dialog boxes, complete Session Command Help also is
available.
StatGuide also is located within MINITAB and explains how to interpret
statistical tables and graphs in a practical, straightforward way. Its
tone is informal and friendly. You can easily access it by
right-clicking your output or by clicking the icon in the toolbar.
From basic statistics, to quality tools, to Design of Experiments, the
StatGuide offers relevant guidance when you need it most.
There are five tutorials available in MINITAB to help you quickly learn
how to use the software. Each tutorial focuses on a different statistical
problem and takes you from creating the project to producing final
results.
Downloadable PDF versions of MINITAB 14
Installation Guides are available.
MINITAB now offers Help files in a printable format, complete with
table of contents, numbered pages, and indexes. Over 70 individual
chapters are available, including:
- Brushing Graphs
- Control Charts
- Regression with Life Data
Larger Help areas also are available, such as:
- Common Graph Options and Graph Editing
- Quality Process Improvement
- Design of Experiments (DOE)
Visit the MINITAB
14 Help-to-Go Table of Contents for a complete list of all the Help
files available and to download and print them as formatted, easy-to-read
PDF files.
The Companion Text
List (CTL) is an online
database that contains a bibliographical listing of currently available
texts featuring MINITAB Statistical Software. It includes textbooks,
textbook supplements, and other related teaching materials and is updated
continuously.
The MINITAB Handbook is a supplementary text that teaches basic
statistics using MINITAB Release 14. A staple for both professionals and
students since it was first published in 1976, this latest edition has
been updated to include:
- the improved graphics and other features and enhancements introduced
in MINITAB 14
- many new examples, datasets, exercises, and macros
- new material on interpreting and illustrating confidence intervals
and sampling distributions
- a greatly expanded chapter on using MINITAB to create statistical
simulations
The MINITAB Handbook was written by Barbara Ryan, Brian Joiner, and
Jonathan Cryer, and is available directly from Duxbury Press. It also will be available bundled with MINITAB Student 14, a streamlined and economical version
of MINITAB 14, in fall 2004. Visit the MINITAB Student Bundling Information Page for more
information, or contact your publisher directly.
We appreciate your feedback. If you find errors or problems within any
of the MINITAB documentation, please notify us by e-mailing doc_comments@minitab.com