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MINITAB(ID:723/min018)
Interactive statistical programming
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Country: United States
Designed 1976
Published: 1976
Genus: Columnar sheets
Sammet category: Specialised Languages
Interactive solution of small statistical problems.
"MINITAB is an interactive statistical computing system [...] developed by the Department of Statistics at Pennsylvania State University. MINITAB is written in FORTRAN and originated as a student-oriented adaptation of the National Bureau of Standards OMNITAB system. It is designed to allow students in introductory statistics courses to communicate with the computer through commands similar to English sentences."
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References:
Ryan,T.A. et al, (1976) Ryan,T.A. et al, "MINITAB Student Handbook", Duxbury Press 1976.
Farber, Elizabeth (1979) Farber, Elizabeth "Guide To Minitab" NY 79
Velleman, Paul F. and David C. Hoaglin. (1981) Velleman, Paul F. and David C. Hoaglin. "Applications, Basics, and Computing of Exploratory Data Analysis" Duxbury Press, 1981
Croarkin, M. Carroll (2001) Croarkin, M. Carroll "Statistics and Measurements" J. Res. Natl. Inst. Stand. Technol 106(1) January?February 2001 pp279?292
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Statistical Computing
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MINITAB - Interactive Statistics
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Minitab: What is it? by Bob Hayden Minitab is software for statistical number crunching that has been around for many years. It had its roots in the Omnitab package developed at the National Bureau of Standards around 1970. Omnitab was an attempt to create a program that was more user-friendly than the other mainframe packages of its day. This ease of use inspired teachers at Penn State to adapt Omnitab for an introductory statistics course there, thus creating Minitab in 1972. Early versions of Minitab were designed to run on many different platforms, and this, combined with its ease of use, led to its rapidly becoming the de facto standard statistical package for use in teaching statistics. This early use in education influenced the development of Minitab. For example, it incorporated simulation tools that helped students grasp things like sampling distributions.
Originally Minitab did fewer statistical procedures than other mainframe packages. The next stage in its development was the addition of novel features that were not included in other packages. Perhaps the first important example was the inclusion of the exploratory data analysis tools developed by John Tukey and his colleagues. These tools were communicated to a wider audience by Paul Velleman and David Hoaglin in their book _ABCs of EDA_. The book not only explained the new techniques, such as boxplots and stem and leaf plots, but included computer code for implementing them. This code was incorporated into Minitab, making it one of the first packages to provide these tools. Later Minitab added extensive quality control tools. In this era Minitab was a statistical Swiss Army knife, providing quick analysis and exploration of moderate-sized datasets. It became popular in industry, although some academics still looked down on it as a package for beginners.
In recent years, Minitab has added many of the traditional statistical techniques included in larger stats packages, and concentrated more on sales to business and industry. The last three versions have run only in Microsoft Windows, although earlier versions are still available for other platforms.
What is it NOT?
Minitab is a tool for data analysis with an emphasis on ease of use. Although it incorporates some features to aid instruction, it is not really a tutorial package. You can use it to learn statistics by doing statistics, but it does not teach you statistics by itself the way, say, ActivStats does
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