The objective of this training program is to help trainees to master all the skills that are required to work with Minitab. The training program will help the trainee to perform all the statistical analysis with Minitab. It is also intended to make the trainees cover all the topics that fall under the domain of Minitab. Topics like Minitab GUI and Descriptive Statistics, Statistical Analysis using Minitab, Correlation Techniques in Minitab and Predictive Modeling using Excel will be covered in this training module and Project on Data Analytics using Minitab and Project on Minitab – Regression Modeling will be covered in the project module. The goal of this course is to help an individual to achieve knowledge of working with Minitab to perform time series analysis and forecasting of data in all sorts of statistics based problems.

This is meant to be a practical book. The author's "objective is to provide a thorough discussion of the most useful data-mining tools that goes beyond the typical'black box' description, and to show why these tools work". I think the result of reading and doing the exercises in this book is: 1. I will have acquired some familiarity with regression techniques and a few of the problems they can help with 2. I will have performed the regression techniques in R Over half the text focuses on various kinds of regression. Then there is a little bit on classification, decision trees, clustering, principal components analysis.