Using the Assistant tool to create control charts
The Assistant menu first appeared in Minitab v16 to make the use of statistics and their interpretation more accessible. As such, this menu helps us select a control chart, before giving us some advice on our results. The Assistant menu does not offer all the control charts that are found under the Stat menu; it offers us only the most commonly used ones.
We will not look at any data but we will step through the decisions offered by the assistant in selecting a chart. Try the steps with your own data. The steps here follow the choices for an Xbar-R chart. This is to illustrate the choices given at each step of the Assistant menu.
How to do it...
The following steps will guide us through the Assistant ...
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