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MINITAB TUTORIAL by Dr. Tim Zgonc Thiel College August 1996 Fifth Edition Revised for Minitab Version 15 and Windows XP by Dr. Merv Newton & Dr. Jeonghun Kim Thiel College July 2007
This material is used as part of the Elementary Statistics course at Thiel College. The main text used in that course is Elementary Statistics 4rd Edition by Larson and Farber, published by Pearson Prentice Hall. All references in this document about page and problem numbers are based on that book. The order in which the chapters are covered in the course is 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, and 11; but not every section of every chapter is included. There are 19 Minitab lessons, and the table to the right indicates the section number(s) from the text that provides the prerequisite statistical background for each lesson. Each lesson is in its own PDF file, which you can read or print by clicking on the lesson number in the table. Lesson 1 includes a cover page, a table of contents, copyright page, dedication page, and a preface.	Lesson 1 Introduction 2 Frequency Distribution 3 Introduction to Graphing 4 Advanced Graphing 5 Measures of Central Tendency 6 Measures of Variation 7 Boxplot-and-Whisker Plot 8 Discrete Distributions 9 Binomial Distributions 10 Central Limit Theorem 11 Confidence Intervals 12 Hypothesis Testing;     Large Sample 13 Hypothesis Testing;     Small Sample 14 Hypothesis Testing;     Independent Samples 15 Hypothesis Testing;     Dependent Samples 16 Regression & Correlation 17 Contingency Tables 18 ANOVA 19 Sign Test	Section 1.3 2.1 2.1 2.2 2.3   2.4 & 2.5 2.5 4.1 4.2 5.4 6.1 7.2   7.3   8.2   8.3   9.1, 9.2, & 9.3 10.2 10.4 11.1

If you have any comments, questions, or corrections regarding this material, please contact Merv Newton at mnewton@thiel.edu or Jeonghun Kim at jeonghunkim@thiel.edu

Last modified January 19, 2010