Using My Fitness Tracker's Data To Get A Superhero-Inspired Physique
Analyzing two year's of fitness tracker data using Minitab Statistical Software to answer: does adding resistance training improve calories burnt compared to pure cardio?
Using Intervals to Get at the Tail Ends of the Problem in Healthcare and Medical Devices
Demonstrating process improvement often involves showing improvement in the mean, so we focus on the center of a distribution. Defects don’t fall in the center, though. They're in the tails.
When It’s Easier to Open Data in Minitab than in Excel
Find out how Minitab makes it easy to work with data in formats like txt, dat, and csv so that you don’t have to use more than one program.
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.
Improve Your Production Stability for Competitive Manufacturing with Minitab Engage
Unstable behaviors generate quality problems experienced by customers later on. Use the modern toolkit of Minitab for production stability for competitive manufacturing.
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.
2019 Valentine’s Day: More Money, Fewer Gift-givers
How do you plan to celebrate Valentine’s Day? Maybe buying a gift for your sweetheart, or perhaps a special dinner out? Well you might find it easier to get a table at a nice restaurant. According to this survey, fewer consumers are celebrating but those who do are planning to spend more.
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.