Chapter 2. Tables and Graphs

In this chapter we will cover the following recipes:

  • Finding the Tally of a categorical column
  • Building a table of descriptive statistics
  • Creating Pareto charts
  • Creating bar charts of categorical data
  • Creating a bar chart with a numeric response
  • Creating a scatterplot of two variables
  • Generating a paneled boxplot
  • Finding the mean to a 95 percent confidence on interval plots
  • Using probability plots to check the distribution of two sets of data
  • Creating a layout of graphs
  • Creating a time series plot
  • Adding a secondary axis to a time series plot

Introduction

Minitab has a very powerful and flexible range of charts that can be created. In this chapter, we will make use of some simple tabulation tools, such as Tally or Descriptive Statistics ...

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