How to Choose the Best Regression Model
Choosing the correct linear regression model can be difficult. Trying to model it with only a sample doesn’t make it any easier. In this post, I'll review some common statistical methods for selecting models, complications you may face, and provide some practical advice for choosing the best regression model.
Raising the Bar for Employee Skills is Not Optional
The skills to understand and work with data — and make educated decisions based on it — are in demand and they are not going away anytime soon. Look at some new directions in the workforce over the last few years and how executives are treating upskilling their teams as a top priority.
Punxsutawney Phil and His 2-Sample T-test
Although a polar vortex hit most of the northern United States last week, thousands of visitors did converge on Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania to see if Punxsutawney Phil would see his shadow. Let’s look at a 2-sample t-test to see if Phil can be Punxsutawney’s chief advisor on how quickly winter ends.
7 Top Talks from the Minitab Insights Conference
See what goes into a great Minitab Insights Conference presentation. Great stories others want to hear. Discovering new tools in Minitab software. Engaging walkthroughs of finding insights in your data, and recommendations on how to act on them. All packed into a few days of learning and fun.
Five Guidelines You Need to Follow to Create an Effective Value Stream Map
Value stream mapping is a cornerstone of the Lean process improvement methodology, and also is a recognized tool used in Six Sigma. A value stream map illustrates the flow of materials and information as a product or service moves through a process. Creating a “current state” value stream map can help you identify waste and also makes it easier to envision an improved state for process in the future.
Process Validation Tools For Clinical Approval: An Example For Passing the 3 FDA Stage Goals
The FDA recommends three stages for process validation. Let’s explore the stage goals and the types of activities and statistical techniques typically conducted within each. You can use Minitab Statistical Software to run any of the analyses here. If you don’t yet have Minitab, try it free for 30 days.
A Quality Career: Dr Rozzeta Dolah Part 2
To celebrate Minitab’s support of the recent International Conference on Teaching Statistics in Kyoto, Japan, we sat down with Dr Rozzeta Dolah, whose career and work in statistics and engineering has taken her to her native Malaysia, to Japan and then the USA where she is currently working at MIT.
A Quality Career: Dr Rozzeta Dolah Part 1
To celebrate Minitab’s support of the recent International Conference on Teaching Statistics in Kyoto, Japan, we sat down with Dr Rozzeta Dolah, whose career and work in statistics and engineering has taken her to her native Malaysia, to Japan and then the USA where she is currently working at MIT.
Beyond the Hype: Machine Learning for Manufacturing Performance
Machine learning utilizes analytical data to discover insights that can create a more efficient manufacturing process and solve problems in a matter of seconds. These tools can be used in countless constructive ways in the manufacturing industry.
Concluding Our Golf DOE: Time to Quantify, Understand and Optimize
Last week on The Minitab Blog, we used Minitab Statistical Software to review analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) and blocking variables in our ongoing design of experiment (DOE) on how to get the longest drive in your golf game. Now let’s finish it. We’re ready to review and present our results.