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Minitab Cookbook

By : Isaac A Newton
Book Image

Minitab Cookbook

By: Isaac A Newton

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Minitab Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Creating a bar chart with a numeric response


Bar charts can also be used with numeric responses. Using the graphs with the selected function of a variable, we can find the mean of a numeric column. Here, we will use the pulse data to see the difference in the mean pulse rate for the previous and next activity columns. We will also split the bars into those who ran on the spot and those who didn't.

How to do it…

The following instructions will create a bar chart of Pulse1 and Pulse2 clustered together within the Ran column:

  1. Go to the File menu and select Open Worksheet….

  2. Click on the button labeled Look in Minitab Sample Data folder.

  3. Open the Pulse.MTW worksheet.

  4. Go to the Graph menu and select Bar Chart….

  5. Change the selection for Bars represent: to A function of a variable.

  6. Select the Cluster bar chart under Multiple Y's and select OK.

  7. Make sure the Function: section is set to Mean and then select the Graph variables: section. Enter Pulse1 and Pulse2 into the graph variables.

  8. Select the Categorical...