Teaching Resources
Teaching with Minitab is one of the best things you can do to prepare your students for the workplace.
One of the most important statistical concepts to understand is the central limit theorem. This article explains the central limit theorem and how to demonstrate it using common examples, including the roll of a die and the birthdays of Major League Baseball players. Michelle Paret and Eston Martz, Minitab News, August 2009.
Both large and small schools benefit from Minitab's university-wide annual enterprise license (AEL), which provides each student, faculty, and staff member with both unlimited access to Minitab in on-campus labs and a timed, personal copy of Minitab for home use.
With our tremendous academic discounts, there's no reason for students to muddle through your class with a spreadsheet package like Excel that lacks critical statistical functionality and can be downright inaccurate.
Today more than ever, students are demanding educational experiences that give them real-world skills. Instructors who use Minitab in their classes can be confident their students are learning to use a tool that will serve them well as they begin their careers.
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News
Jenny Shook teaches statistics classes at Penn State University. She’s found that by making instructional videos available on YouTube to show how easy it is to perform statistical analyses in Minitab, she’s able to help more students learn and succeed in the classroom.
As more businesses search for ways to boost efficiency—and profits—in the current economic climate, Minitab Inc. is offering a free tool on its Web site that can help quality professionals be sure they’re making the best use of their data. The tool, called the Method Chooser, can be downloaded free at http://www.minitab.com/training/tutorials/method-chooser.aspx
Instructors at many of the United States' leading colleges and universities rely on Minitab Statistical Software to teach the fundamentals of data analysis and help students apply statistics to solve real-world problems in business, engineering, and many other fields.
Students need affordable software now more than ever. Fortunately, Minitab offers academic discounts online through our Minitab Product Center hosted by On the Hub.com.
Thousands of students across the country complete science fair projects every year, and many struggle to find a topic. Not Jonathan Riska. When the seventh grader from Macungie, Pa. decided to enter the 2007 Pennsylvania Junior Academy of Science State
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Case Studies
A recent survey at the University of Pittsburgh revealed that students learning statistics prefer using Minitab Statistical Software over Excel.
Out of the Lecture Hall: A team of Penn State statistics faculty transformed their students’ learning experience—with the help of Minitab software.
Enhancing a Race Car's Performance: Find out how one engineering class class used Minitab Statistical Software's powerful design of experiments (DOE) capabilities to find factor settings to optimize race car performance.
This article examines the development and results of a voluntary, one-hour weekly labto teach a general statistics course to non-mathematics majors.
Pennsylvania College of Technology
"Minitab provides an intuitive, easily understood menu that guide students toward a correct statistical analysis. The StatGuide provides significant support for students."
-- Roger Davis, Associate Professor
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