October 2012
Beginner
420 pages
9h 37m
English
book
Industrial Statistics with Minitab
by Pere Grima Cintas, Lluis Marco Almagro, Xavier Tort-Martorell Llabres
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9.1 Hypothesis Testing for One Mean
9.1.1 Case 1: Known Population Standard Deviation
Stat > Basic Statistics > 1-Sample Z
Example 9.1:
A filling line of detergent packages must introduce 4 kg in each package. A sample of 20 units is taken and subsequently weighted (in grams) obtaining the following measures:
Historical data indicate a standard deviation of the weights of 25 g. Check if the process is not centred; that is, check if the mean of the packets’ weights is different from the target value of 4 kg.
Enter the data in column C1 and call it ‘Weights’. Then, go to Stat > Basic Statistics > 1-Sample Z:
With all default options, the output is the following:
The options are:
Notice that the button Graphs allows you to select any of the following graphs:
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