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Minitab Cookbook

Minitab Cookbook

By : Isaac A Newton
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Minitab Cookbook

Minitab Cookbook

4.4 (8)
By: Isaac A Newton

Overview of this book

This practical cookbook covers a broad range of topics in an easy-to-understand manner. Step-by-step instructions guide you through even the most complicated of tools in Minitab. This book is great for anyone who is familiar with statistics and who wants to learn how Minitab works. Whilst you do not need to be an expert in all areas of statistics, you should understand the basics of the chapters you are interested in.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
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Minitab Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1
Navigating Minitab and Useful Shortcuts
2
Index

Fitting a nonlinear regression


Nonlinear regression tools give us the ability to specify an expectation function that goes beyond the Linear, Quadratic, or Cubic models. Applications of nonlinear regression are present where the Linear models fail to fit very well. Models for exponential growth and decay rates are good examples, where the nonlinear tools will provide a better fit to the data. The use of nonlinear regression tools is more complicated than the Linear models, and initial estimates of the coefficients must be provided.

Here we will use the data from the Oxford weather station to define our own expectation function, set the initial parameters of the function, and find the parameters of the coefficients. We will concentrate on the results from 2000 onwards, hence the initial steps will be to subset the worksheet.

From these results, we will define a regression model to predict the mean maximum monthly temperature from the month of the year.

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