Minitab Versions

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Thefirst version of Minitab was distributed in 5 boxes of computer punch cards in 1972, but as later versions of the software were available in less cumbersome formats, various packaging designs have evolved into what you see today.

As the use of statistical software went global in 1982, The Minitab User Group introduced a newsletter that provided a forum for users to exchange ideas. Today, the Minitab Network on LinkedIn serves a similar function. Minitab is also active on various social networks, including Facebook, Twitter, and Google +.

In 1985, Minitab moved out of leased offices at Penn State and opened its first headquarters in State College, Pa. By 2002, the company grew out of its first headquarters and moved into a new 88,000-square-foot building, not far from the old headquarters.

Minitab in French was the first translated version of the software that displayed full online help, documentation, menus, and output in French. The beta release debuted on April 9, 1996 at the Stat Expo in Paris.

I have a need to convert Minitab worksheets (*.mtw) to JMP files. There is potentially a very large number of files so I'm hoping to find some non-manual way of doing this. I realize I could save each file as a csv format and then open it in JMP but there are, again, potentially thousands of files. I have done some searching and found the following link among other JMP notes. The link below talks about opening *.mtw files by initiating a batch file that converts the file to a *.mtp format which can then be opened by JMP. When I try to open a *.mtw file, I get a series of error messages in Minitab and eventually JMP opens a blank worksheet with only the original file name as the title.

I have loaded Minitab 17 onto my machine to test out the link above and am currently running JMP v12. I've even tried saving in earlier versions of Minitab as the link above references Minitab 14 & 15 but nothing works.

While JMP no longer supports the direct reading of Minitab MTW files, I can envision writing a script that creates a .MTB file that contains Minitab statements to open a specified .mtw file, and to save it as a .mtp file, and then exiting Minitab with the .mtb file as an input option, with JMP then opening the newly created .mtp file. I do not have access to Minitab, to test this out, but I have used similar methodologies within JMP to solve similar issues.

You must have a recent version of Minitab installed on the machine where you are trying to open the file. JMP asks Minitab to open the file on its behalf. If you do have Minitab installed and you could share the file, then please contact Tech Support and they will pass the file along.

With a little effort, you can send two versions of a marketing email to a sample of your readers and compare success metrics before sending the best version to the whole audience. That way, you can identify the best version by its success metrics via open rate and/or click through rate.

The open rate is the percentage of people who opened your email out of the people who received your email. The click through rate is the percentage of contacts that received your email and clicked on at least one link in the message, thus demonstrating more engagement than just opening the email.

Both questions require a baseline in terms of success metrics, so we used historical data to make estimates. We wanted to know what the benchmark success metrics were for a similar marketing email aimed at the same target audience. In this example, our benchmark is a similar email sent to a lookalike audience where 340 readers out of 100,000 clicked on one or several links inserted in the email. The baseline click through rate is 0.34%.

Because the sample size is small compared to the size of the population, the binomial or hypergeometric distributions to model the sampled data would provide similar results. It is your call to decide if that margin of error for click through rates is acceptable and will estimate this success metric with sufficient precision.

Using the 2-Proportion Test, which can be found in the Stat>Basic Statistics>2 Proportions menu of Minitab Statistical Software. you can determine what sample size is required to detect a certain difference between the click through rates of the two email versions with a required probability or power.

The benchmark click through rate for your first email campaign is 0.34%. The change you could detect in the click through rate would be from 0.34% to 0.63% in 90% of cases if you choose a sample size of 10,000 contacts for each email version.

Minitab is a statistical software tool designed for easy interactive use and for analyzing research data. This software is available for download for faculty,staff and students for use on personally owned Windows devices.

Note: Minitab has discontinued the Mac desktop client for Minitab and all versions of Minitab Express. Legacy versions of Minitab Express are still available for download on the Minitab portal but they are not covered under St. Thomas' license agreement.

Minitab is a Windows-only application and Minitab Express is available for Windows and Mac. Minitab and Minitab Express are also available for use by all current students and faculty on their personal computer for academic purposes.

Note: Older versions of Minitab do not support the new "sign in" method for licensing. If you see a prompt asking for a license file with no option to sign in, please uninstall Minitab and download the latest version.

To get Minitab or Minitab Express for your RIT Owned computer, please contact your Systems Administrator.

If you have any questions or trouble with the installation, please contact the RIT Service Center.

Older versions of Minitab do not support the new "sign in" method for licensing. If you see a prompt asking for a license file with no option to sign in, please uninstall Minitab and download the latest version.

Siena Heights University students, faculty, and staff can utilize Minitab, software used for data analysis and statistics, on or off-campus starting this year. With our annual renewal of the software, Minitab now offers a web version and a downloadable Windows desktop version of their software free to all members of the SHU community. To access your Minitab account, visit this link or look for an email from Minitab sent earlier this year.

Minitab now supports accessing the statistical program through a new web app made available to SHU. The web application has many of the same features you may be familiar with and now includes direct OneDrive support, allowing for quick saving and loading from your Siena Heights University cloud storage. If you utilize a MacOS device or Linux-based machine, you will need to use the web application. Minitab discontinued support for all non-Windows platforms in early 2021.

To access the web app, visit app.minitab.com and enter your full SHU email address. You will not be able to use social media logins on this page. Once you enter your email address and click Next, you will need to sign in through Office.com if you are not logged in already. After signing in successfully, access to the web application and account settings will be given.

Minitab currently maintains a Windows desktop application of Minitab. Starting in 2021, the MacOS version was deprecated, leaving only the Windows app and web-based app available to use. This application is free to download for all SHU students, staff, and faculty, and can be found after signing in to the Minitab website with your SHU credentials. Minitab only supports 64-bit versions of Windows, and suggests 32-bit platforms utilize the web application instead.

Minitab provides a comparison chart between the web application and the Windows desktop application. Once all features of the Desktop application are integrated to the web version, Minitab will discontinue any downloadable form of their software, opting instead to be fully web-based.

Windows and Mac Minitab licenses for the desktop apps expire on December 31, 2021. The Minitab web app replaces the desktop client and is available now using any web browser, except Firefox. Simply log in using your University computing account credentials. Your work can be saved locally or to cloud storage services, including Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive.

Note that current desktop versions of Minitab can still be used until the license expires. Minitab for Mac no longer receives support from the vendor and the current version will not work with new versions of macOS or new Mac (M1) chipsets.

I have several MPJ-files (version 16 and older) in Minitab. They cannot be read by newer versions of minitab and I need some way to retreive the data (I do not need graphs etc just the data). Is there a way to import the data from olkd MPJ files in R?

Minitab is a comprehensive statistical software application. The Loyola license has changed to a named user license. Students and faculty who need to use the software must be added as named users to access the application. To request a named user account, email ITSServ...@luc.edu.

Named users can access Minitab via the online application - app.minitab.com - or they can download the application from the app.minitab.com site to a Windows machine (a personal computer or an LUC office desktop computer). The web app only works with Chrome, Edge, or Safari browsers. Named users must create a Minitab account using their Loyola email address and a password of their own creation.

Self-service support is available through the Help button in the top menu bar of the application. Choose the Getting Started option. That will open the online documentation. You can also download documentation.

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