Minitab Archive by Bill Qualls
About this page
I created this page in 2022. In the past couple of years I have fielded some questions about Minitab.
I haven't used Minitab since about 1998 when I was an Assistant Professor of Mathematics at Waubonsee
Community College in Illinois. I always liked Minitab, but never had the opportunity to use it in my
professional life: I have used SAS, Python, and R extensively. So I decided it might be nice to put all
of my Minitab programs into a web archive. I hope someone gets some use out of these. If you do, I would
love to hear from you: email me at bill_qualls@hotmail.com.
About Software
All of my programs were run on an old version of Minitab, Release 8.21, copyright 1991. Consequently all
of my programs are text scripts. Filenames were limited to 8 characters. I never used any Windows interface.
(Scripts are great because you can easily save, edit, and rerun your script.) If you happen to have a
very old version of Minitab, you can probably still run it if you do so thru DOSBox. (DOSBox -- a free
download -- was written
primarily for gamers so they could run legacy video games on newer computers: it also works well with
Minitab!) By doing so, I was able to run all of the programs contained herein using Windows 10.
Running Minitab in DOSBox
After starting DOSBox, and assuming Minitab is located at D:\minitab:
Z:\>mount c d:\minitab
Z:\>c:
C:\>minitab
Type stop to exit Minitab.
Running the scripts
MTB> outfile 'myscript.txt'
MTB> execute 'myscript.mtb'
Programs should be in the Minitab folder. Outputs will be in the Minitab folder by default.
You can enter filename as upper or lower case.
Regardless, output filenames will always be all uppercase.
If you run the program multiple times with the same outfile name, the output will be appended to the existing file
(you probably don't want that, so delete the old output before rerunning.)
Enter and display data
| Program
| Output
| Source
|
| ML-2-1.MTB
| ML-2-1.TXT
| Mason & Lind (7ed), Chapter 2, #1, page 31
|
| ML-2-7.MTB
| ML-2-7.TXT
| Mason & Lind (7ed), Chapter 2, #7, page 38
|
| MB-2-29.MTB
| MB-2-29.TXT
| McClave & Benson (5ed), Exercise #2.29, page 45
|
| CONDO.MTB
| CONDO.TXT
| Mason & Lind (7ed), Chapter 2, Table 2-1, Page 23
|
MB-7-8.MTB
MB-7-8.DAT
MB-7-10.DAT
(file input)
| MB-7-8.TXT
| McClave & Benson (5ed), Exercises #7.8, #7.9, and 7.10, pages 299-300
|
Sort data
Stem-and-leaf
| Program
| Output
| Source
|
| ML-2-1.MTB
| ML-2-1.TXT
| Mason & Lind (7ed), Chapter 2, #1, page 31
|
| ML-2-2.MTB
| ML-2-2.TXT
| Mason & Lind (7ed), Chapter 2, #2, page 32
|
| ML-2-3.MTB
| ML-2-3.TXT
| Mason & Lind (7ed), Chapter 2, #3, page 32
|
| ML-2-7.MTB
| ML-2-7.TXT
| Mason & Lind (7ed), Chapter 2, #7, page 38
|
| CONDO.MTB
| CONDO.TXT
| Mason & Lind (7ed), Chapter 2, Table 2-1, Page 23
|
| ML-167-1.MTB
| ML-167-1.TXT
| Mason & Lind (7ed), page 167, #1
|
| ML-167-2.MTB
| ML-167-2.TXT
| Mason & Lind (7ed), page 167, #2
|
MB-3-86.MTB
(increment)
| MB-3-86.TXT
| McClave & Benson (5ed), #3.86, page 135
|
Box plot
Histogram
| Program
| Output
| Source
|
| CONDO.MTB
| CONDO.TXT
| Mason & Lind (7ed), Chapter 2, Table 2-1, Page 23
|
Means and medians and modes, Oh my!
| Program
| Output
| Source
|
| ML-2-3.MTB
| ML-2-3.TXT
| Mason & Lind (7ed), Chapter 2, #3, page 32
|
| CONDO.MTB
| CONDO.TXT
| Mason & Lind (7ed), Chapter 2, Table 2-1, Page 23
|
| MB-3-94.MTB
| MB-3-94.TXT
| McClave & Benson (5ed), Exercise #3.94, page 138
|
MB-7-8.MTB
MB-7-8.DAT
MB-7-10.DAT
(row mean, row median)
| MB-7-8.TXT
| McClave & Benson (5ed), Exercises #7.8, #7.9, and 7.10, pages 299-300
|
Calculating z scores
Area under the standard normal
Area under the (non-standard) Normal Distribution
C.I. and T.O.H. for small sample (ttest and tint)
Two-sample t test (unpaired)
Two-sample t test (paired difference)
Simple Linear Regression
Multiple Linear Regression
| Program
| Output
| Source
|
| AA-467.MTB
| AA-467.TXT
| Aczel, Complete Business Statistics (2ed), Page 467, Example (a)
|
Megan
|
