8.3 - Using Minitab to Lighten the Workload

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Use Minitab to calculate the confidence and/or prediction intervals Section

For any sizeable data set, and even for the small ones, you'll definitely want to use Minitab to calculate the confidence and/or prediction intervals for you. To do so:

  1. Under the Stat menu, select Stat, and then select Regression:

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  2. In the pop-up window that appears, in the box labeled Response, specify the response and, in the box labeled Predictors, specify the predictor variable:

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    Then, click on the Options... button.

  3. In the pop-up window that appears, in the box labeled Prediction intervals for new observations, type the value of the predictor variable for which you'd like a confidence interval and/or prediction interval:

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    In the box labeled Confidence level, type your desired confidence level. (The default is 95.) Then, select OK.

  4. And, select OK on the main pop-up window. The output should appear in the session window. The first part of the output should look something like this:

    The regression equation is NEXT = 33.8 + 10.7 DURATION

    Predictor Coef SE Coef T P
    Constant 33.828 2.262 14.96 0.000
    DURATION 10.7410 0.6263 17.15 0.000

    Analysis of Variance

    Source DF SS MS F P
    Regression 1 13133 13133 294.08    0.000
    Residual Error 105 4689 45 0.000  

    Total

    106 17822

     

       

    while the second part of the output, which contains the requested intervals, should look something like this:

    Predicted Values for New Observations

    New Obs Fit SE Fit 95% CI 95 % PI
    1 85.385 1.059 (83.286, 87.484) (71.969, 98.801)

    Values of Predictors for New Observations

    New Obs    DURATION
    1 4.80