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Jim Swift

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Posted: Aug 28, 1996 11:29 PM

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>Subject: Minitab
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>(Forgive me if this is coming to you a second time. I don't think it made it
>out the first time I tried to send it.)
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>Help!!
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>I'm using Minitab for my Statistics classes, and I was trying to do something
>last night and got stuck. I have a list of data in column C1 and their
>corresponding frequencies in column C2. I want to do descriptive statistics
>on it, and I can't figure out how to tell Minitab that the frequencies are in
>C2. All it will do is give me the statistics on C1, without using their
>frequencies. I know that I'm probably being pretty thick headed and there is
>something obvious that I'm missing, but I don't know what to do. I've read
>the books and manuals that I have, and they don't seem to help. I'd also
>like to make a normal probability chart of the data, and it isn't doing that
>either. If it makes a difference, I'm using the student edition.
>
>Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong? You'll have my eternal gratitude.
>
>Thanks.
>
>Bill Roloff
>Lake Park HS
>Roselle, IL
>
Jim Swift Haraka,
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