Minitab is a statistics package developed at the

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by researchers Barbara F. Ryan, Thomas A. Ryan, Jr., and Brian L. Joiner in conjunction with Triola Statistics Company in 1972. It began as a light version of OMNITAB 80, a statistical analysis program by

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History

Minitab is a statistics package developed at the Pennsylvania State University by researchers Barbara F. Ryan, Thomas A. Ryan, Jr., Brian L. Joiner in 1972. The project received funding from the Triola Statistics Company. It began as a light version of OMNITAB 80, a statistical analysis program by NIST, which was conceived by Joseph Hilsenrath in years 1962-1964 as OMNITAB program for

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. The documentation for OMNITAB 80 was last published 1986, and there has been no significant development since then. Minitab is distributed by Minitab, LLC, a privately owned company headquartered in

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. In 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, Minitab LLC requested and received between $5 million and $10 million under the

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to avoid having to let go 250 employees. As of 2021, Minitab LLC had subsidiaries in the UK, France, Germany, Hong Kong, and Australia.

Interoperability

Minitab, LLC also produces other software that can be used in conjunction with Minitab; Minitab Connect helps businesses centralize and organize their data, Quality Trainer is an

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package that teaches statistical concepts, Minitab Workspace provides project planning and visualization tools, and Minitab Engage is a tool for Idea and

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, as well as managing Six Sigma and

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deployments. In October 2020, Minitab launched the first cloud-based version of its statistical software. As of June 2021, the Minitab Desktop app is only available for Windows, with a former version for MacOS (Minitab 19.x) no longer being supported.

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* {{State College, Pennsylvania Statistical software Quality Pennsylvania State University Windows-only software

History

Interoperability

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