Question

State Alabama Alaska Arizona Arkansas California Connecticut Delaware District of Columbia Florida Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada New Jersey New Mexico New York North Dakota Ohio Oklahoma Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont Washington West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming

Cigarettes 1820 3034 2582 1824 2860 3110 3360 4046 2827 2010 2791 2618 2212 2184 2344 2158 2892 2591 2692 2496 2206 1608 2756 2375 2332 4240 2864 2116 2914 1996 2638 2344 2378 2918 1806 2094 2008 2257 1400 2589 2117 2125 2286 2804

Can you create a pie chart for “Cigarettes”? If so, display it. If this cannot be created in Minitab, explain why.

Can you create a bar chart for “Cigarettes”? Is so, display it. If this cannot be created in Minitab, explain why.

Concerning the descriptive statistics for “Cigarettes,” what should “N*” or “N missing” be? (Minitab won’t tell you this answer, but you can figure it out.)

Answer 1

MTB > Chart 'Cigarettes' 'State';
SUBC>   Title "Bar Chart of Cigarettes";
SUBC>   Bar.

Chart of Cigarettes

Chart of State

MTB > PieChart 'Cigarettes';
SUBC>   Combine 0.02;
SUBC>   Title "Pie Chart of Cigarettes";
SUBC>   Panel.

Pie Chart of Cigarettes

MTB > Describe 'Cigarettes'.

Descriptive Statistics: Cigarettes

Variable     N    N*    Mean    SE Mean StDev Minimum      Q1    Median     Q3     Maximum
Cigarettes 44   0    2491.4    84.0    557.3    1400.0    2119.0 2376.5 2821.3    4240.0

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N missing means number of missing values in the sample.The number of missing values refers to cells that contain the missing value symbol *. Minitab displays this value in the output as N* In our case it is of the type any state with missing number of Cigarettes.