Minitab Notes for Activity 4

Entering Your Data (Question 1)

  1. Label a column as height
  2. Enter the heights of the people into that column. Do NOT enter ' or ", just put the height in inches without any special characters.

Summarizing the Data (Question 2)

  1. Choose Stat / Basic Statistics / Display Descriptive Statistics
  2. Double click on the variable "height"
  3. Click on Statistics and check the boxes you need: mean, variance, and standard deviation
  4. Click OK

Entering the Sample Means (Question 3)

  1. Label a column as average
  2. Enter the means from all the students into that column.

Summarizing the Sample Means (Question 4)

  1. Choose Stat / Basic Statistics / Display Descriptive Statistics
  2. Double click on the variable "average"
  3. Click on Statistics and check the boxes you need: mean, variance, standard deviation, skewness, and kurtosis
  4. Click OK

Histogram (Question 5)

  1. Choose Graph / Histogram / With Fit
  2. The Graph Variable is "average"
  3. Click OK

Normal Probability Plot (Question 6)

  1. Choose Graph / Probability Plot / Single
  2. The Graph Variable is "average"
  3. Click OK

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