Discovering JMP
Discovering JMP provides a general introduction to the JMP software. This guide assumes that you have no knowledge of JMP. Whether you are an analyst, researcher, student, professor, or statistician, this guide gives you a general overview of JMP’s user interface and features.
This guide introduces you to the following information:
• starting JMP
• analyzing the structure of a JMP window
• preparing and manipulating data
• using interactive graphs to learn from your data
• performing simple analyses to augment graphs
• customizing JMP and special features
• sharing your results
This guide contains six chapters. Each chapter contains examples that reinforce the concepts that are presented in the chapter. All of the statistical concepts are at an introductory level. The sample data used in Discovering JMP are included with the software.
• “Introducing JMP” provides an overview of the JMP application. You learn how content is organized and how to navigate the software.
• “Work with Your Data” describes how to import data from various sources and prepare it for analysis. The chapter also provides an overview of data manipulation tools.
• “Visualize Your Data” explains how to use graphs and charts to understand and visualize your data. The examples range from simple analyses thatinvolve a single variable to multiple-variable graphs that help you see relationships between many variables.
• “Analyze Your Data” describes many commonly used analysis techniques.These techniques range from simple, non-statistical techniques to advanced techniques, where knowledge of statistics is useful.
• “The Big Picture” explains how to analyze distributions, patterns, and similar values in several platforms.
• “Save and Share Your Work” describes sharing your work with non JMP users through PowerPoint presentations and interactive HTML. The chapter also covers saving analyses as scripts and saving work in journals and projects for JMP users.
• “Special Features” describes how to automatically update graphs and analyses as data changes, how to use preferences to customize your reports, and how JMP interacts with SAS.
After reviewing this guide, you will be comfortable navigating and working with your data in JMP.
JMP is available for both Windows and Apple macOS operating systems. However, the material in this guide is based on a Windows operating system.
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