Minitab has a very powerful and flexible range of charts that can be created. In this chapter, we will make use of some simple tabulation tools, such as Tally or Descriptive Statistics tables and then explore some of the many graphs that are available to us.

There are many more charts available in Minitab than the ones shown here. Hopefully, seeing the range of charts and editing will give us ideas about what is possible.

We will also explore some of the editing options for graphs. This is a fairly simple routine. Most editing options are made available by double clicking on the item on the chart to edit, or from the right-click menu. Editing a scale on the chart is performed by double-clicking on the scale axis of interest. To add items not already a graph, we would go to the right-click menu. To place data labels on a bar chart, we would right click on the bar chart, go to the Add menu, and select Data Labels.

As is so often true in Minitab, there is more than one method to edit...