from the preface "This Minitab Guide explains the beginning steps to run Minitab software on personal computers (DOS version). This Guide may be useful to students who are taking statistics, business forecasting, econometrics, marketing research, economics, finance, and computer courses, and to any person who is doing statistical research. This Guide consists of three parts: In Part I (chapters 1-8), the methods of typing the data and command files, and the operational steps are explained to run Minitab. In Part II (Chapters 9-23), sample application files are shown using the data from Applied Statitsics for Business and Economics, by Allen Webster, 1992 (Richard D. Irwin, Inc.). Statistical concepts, theory, formulas, interpretations of the data, calculation methods, and solutions are discussed in detail in the above textbook which also contains most statistical tables. In Part III (Chapter 24), some selected Minitab sample files are arrange in the alphabetical order."