Minitab: the natural choice for non-specialist statisticians?

The School of Mathematics at the University of Southampton offers two MSc programmes in Operational Research, both of which include some statistics as part of their course. Arguably, the statistical techniques that the students learn are likely to be the most generally applicable in their future careers: every simulation modeller, revenue management analyst, operations manager, logistics support worker, etc. will at some point be charged with determining some meaning from a set of data…