1 Getting Started: Data Analysis with JMP

Overview

Goals of Data Analysis: Description and Inference

Types of Data

Starting JMP

A Simple Data Table

Graph Builder: An Interactive Tool to Explore Data

Using an Analysis Platform

Row States

Exporting JMP Results to a Word-Processor Document

Saving Your Work

Leaving JMP

Overview

Statistical analysis and visualization of data have become an important foundation of decision making and critical thinking. Professionals in numerous walks of life—from medicine to government, from science to sports, from commerce to public health—all rely on the analysis of data to inform their work. In this first chapter, we take first steps into the important and rapidly-growing practice of data analysis.

Goals of Data ...

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