Some suggestions for the future development of MINITAB

I have been a user of MINITABTM Statistical Software in its various forms on a range of computing systems since the early 1980s. My earliest memories of using MINITAB are of having to walk several hundred metres from my base in the Mathematics building, cross a busy main road to the basement of the Chemistry building, and queue outside a small room which was equipped with about a dozen interactive terminals with access to MINITAB on a distant mainframe computer. Response times were not quick and it would probably have been less time consuming, for a small data set, to have remained in my office and done the computations by hand! MINITAB has evolved over the years into a user friendly, Windows based package. Recent versions have incorporated a number of major improvements and additions. For example, the suite of quality control procedures makes MINITAB a leader in this important area of industrial statistics. The general linear models procedure has been revamped and, in particular, now provides a range of methods for follow up multiple comparisons….