MINITAB Release 14
Statistical Software for Windows

• A powerful new graphics engine that delivers engaging results that offer tremendous insight into your data
• An effortless method to create, edit, and update graphs
• The ability to customize your menus and toolbars so you can conveniently access the methods you use most

• Customizable menus and toolbars
• Project Manager: logically organizes analysis
• StatGuide: explains output
• ReportPad: generates reports
• Online tutorials
• Smart dialog boxes: remember recent settings
• Clear, comprehensive HTML Help system
• Extensive preferences and user-editable profiles

• Save output and data as HTML
• Unlimited worksheet size
• Import/export: Excel, text, and other formats
• Import Microsoft Excel workbook sheets individually
• Import currency formats
• ODBC querying
• Autofill
• Hide and unhide columns
• Data manipulation: merge, subset, sort, transpose, change data type
• Find and replace in Data window
• 4000 columns per worksheet
• Matrix functions
• Double-precision worksheets
• New and updated sample data sets

• New state-of-the-art graphics engine
• Pictorial gallery and streamlined dialog boxes simplify graph creation
• Interactively edit attributes (axes, scale, etc.) and recreate custom graphs with new data
• Intuitive tool to place multiple graphs on one page
• Display data from different variables or By groups in panels on the same page
• Information display tools: tool tips, crosshairs, plant flags
• Set your own preferences for graph attribute defaults
• Graphs can update as data change
• Built-in graphs: a variety of displays available with a single click
• Rotating 3D graphs
• Scatter plots, boxplots, dotplots, histograms, charts, time series plots
• Probability plots, contour plots
• Matrix plots, pie charts
• Interval plots, individual value plots, area graphs
• Numerous special-purpose graphs
• OLE: edit MINITAB graphs in other applications
• Graph brushing
• Save as TIFF, JPEG, PNG, BMP

• Complete command language
• Powerful macro capability for automating tasks or creating new capabilities

• Descriptive statistics
• Confidence intervals, one- and two-sample t-tests, paired t-tests
• Estimation and tests for one and two proportion problems
• Correlation and covariance
• Normality test
• Test for equal variances
• Generate basic statistics from summary data

• Linear regression
• Polynomial regression
• Logistic regression
• Partial least squares (PLS)
• Stepwise and best subsets
• Residual plots

• ANOVA
• General linear model (GLM)
• Unbalanced nested designs
• MANOVA
• Fully nested designs
• Analysis of means
• Multiple comparisons
• Residual, main effects, and interaction plots

• Run chart
• Pareto chart
• Fishbone diagram
• Control charts: XBar, R, S, XBar-R, XBar-S, I, MR, I-MR, I-MR-R/S, MA, EWMA, CUSUM, zone, short run, p, np, c, u
• Multivariate control charts: T², generalized variance, MEWMA
• Custom tests for special causes
• Individual distribution identification
• Box-Cox transformation
• Johnson transformation
• Historical/shift-in-process charts
• Process capability: normal, nonnormal, attribute, and batch
• Process capability for multiple variables
• Process Capability Sixpack
• Shainin Multi-Vari charts
• Symmetry plot

• Gage R&R: ANOVA and XBar-R methods
• Nested Gage R&R
• Attribute Gage Study - AIAG long method
• Attribute agreement analysis
• Gage linearity and accuracy
• Gage run chart

• Two-level factorial designs
• General full factorial designs
• Plackett-Burman designs
• Response surface designs
• Mixture designs
• D-optimal and distanced-based designs
• Taguchi designs
• User-specified designs
• Analysis of variability for factorial designs
• Response prediction
• Botched runs
• Mixture plots
• Overlaid contour plot
• Plots: residual, main effects, interaction, cube, contour, surface, and wireframe
• Response optimization

• Parametric and nonparametric distribution analysis
• Goodness-of-fit measures
• ML and least squares estimates
• Exact failure, right-, left-, and interval-censored data
• Accelerated life testing
• Regression with life data
• Reliability test plans
• Threshold of parameter distributions
• Analysis of repairable systems
• Analysis of multiple failure modes
• Probit analysis
• Weibayes analysis
• Hypothesis tests on distribution parameters
• Plots: distribution, probability, hazard, and survival
• Confidence intervals

• One-sample Z, t, and proportion
• Two-sample t and proportion
• One-way ANOVA, two-level factorial, and Plackett-Burman
• Solve for number of center points
• Provide any two of: power, difference, and sample size; MINITAB will solve for the third

• Principal component analysis
• Discriminant analysis
• Cluster analysis
• Factor analysis
• Correspondence analysis

• Time series plots
• Auto-, partial auto-, and cross correlations
• ARIMA analysis
• Trend analysis
• Decomposition
• Exponential smoothing
• Winter's method
• Moving average

• Sign test
• Wilcoxon test
• Mann-Whitney test
• Kruskal-Wallis test
• Friedman test
• Runs test
• Mood median test

• Improved cross-tabulation interface with new measures of association
• Contingency tables
• Chi-square test
• Tally
• Fisher's exact test for 2x2 tables

• Random number generator
• Density, distribution, and inverse cumulative distribution functions
• Random sampling

• Windows 98, ME, NT 4, 2000, XP Home or Professional
• 300 MHz Processor
• 64 MB RAM
• CD ROM required for installation
• 85 MB hard disk space for full installation