Using Assistant to run a one-way ANOVA

The Assistant tools will also run a one-way ANOVA. This provides a simpler route to generate the test and is presented as a series of graphical report pages.

For this recipe, we will compare the different mean times between failures of pressure sensors. The response is the number of weeks in service; the category is the failure mode of the circuit. The dataset we will open is circuit.mtw and is one of the example datasets that are installed with Minitab.

How to do it…

The following steps will run a one-way ANOVA and display the graphical reports:

  1. Go to the File menu and click on Open Worksheet.
  2. Click on the button for Look in Minitab Sample Data folder.
  3. Open the circuit.mtw file.
  4. Go to the Assistant menu and then ...

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