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Descriptive statistics

Descriptive statistics - Minitab Tutorial

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Descriptive statistics

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- [Voiceover] In this movie, I wanna show you how to use Minitab to calculate descriptive statistics. Open the exercise file 03-01. Here we have the delivery time performance by two suppliers, A and B. And we're interested in calculating the statistics such as the mean, standard deviation, variance, the min max. To do that, go up to Stat, Basic Statistics, and Display Descriptive Statistics. And here we have the dialogue box. Select both A and B. And we can decide what stats you want to display, so go to Stats and let's choose mean, standard deviation, median, min max, and the total number and click OK. And there we have it, performance by the numbers. Looks like the mean are about the same for A and B. The standard deviation, however, is very different. Zero point nine three seven for A and zero point one eight two for B. Huge difference. As you can see, the min max spread is quite a bit there. We can also do some graphs to accompany this data. So, let's do a Control E to our…

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