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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

Using the Assistant menu for a 1-Sample t-test


The Assistant menu offers us an alternative route to a t-test. In general, the Assistant tools offer us a lot more guidance in both the use and interpretation of results than the Stat menu. The Assistant tools are designed to be more accessible and because of this, there are less options to choose from, compared to the equivalent tool in the Stat menu.

Here, we will use the same economic results as the 1-Sample t-test.

Getting ready

The data for this example is from the UK GDP figures from 2009 to 2013. Enter the data shown in the following screenshot into the worksheet. Alternatively, open the data UK GDP file1.mtw file.

How to do it…

The following steps will use the Assistant tools to run the 1-Sample t-test:

  1. In the Assistant menu, select Hypothesis Tests….

  2. From the screen that asks us what our objective is, select 1-Sample t from the Compare one sample with a target field.

  3. In the Data column: field, enter the percentage change results.

  4. Enter 0 for...