Display Descriptive Statistics - Statistics
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Allows you to choose the statistics that you wish to display.

Dialog box items

Mean: Choose to display the arithmetic mean.

SE of mean: Choose to display the standard error of the mean.

Standard deviation: Choose to display the standard deviation of the data.

Variance: Choose to display the variance of the data.

Coefficient of variation: Choose to display the coefficient of variation.

First quartile: Choose to display the first quartile.

Median: Choose to display the median.

Third quartile: Choose to display the third quartile.

Interquartile range: Choose to display the difference between the first and third quartiles.

Mode: Choose to display the mode and the number of times it occurs. If multiple modes exist, Minitab displays the smallest modes, up to a total of four, along with their frequency.

Trimmed mean: Choose to display the trimmed mean.

Sum: Choose to display the data sum.

Minimum: Choose to display the data minimum.

Maximum: Choose to display the data maximum.

Range: Choose to display the data range.

N nonmissing: Choose to display the number of nonmissing column entries.

N missing: Choose to display the number of missing column entries.

N total: Choose to display the total (nonmissing and missing) number of column entries.

Cumulative N: Choose to display the cumulative number of entries.

Percent: Choose to display the percent of observations that a group constitutes. The percent will be 100 unless you use a By variable.

Cumulative percent: Choose to display the cumulative percent.

Sum of squares: Choose to display the sum of the squared data values. This is the uncorrected sums of squares, without first subtracting the mean.

Skewness: Choose to display the skewness value.

Kurtosis: Choose to display the kurtosis value

MSSD: Choose to display half the Mean of Successive Squared Differences.

Check statistics

Default: Choose to check the default set of statistics as specified in Tools > Options > Individual Commands > Display Descriptive Statistics. You can check or uncheck statistics as needed.

None: Choose to clear all check boxes and then individually check the statistics to display.

All: Choose to check all boxes. You can uncheck statistics as needed.