This page includes Step-by-Step instructions to use Minitab to calculate the regression equation for the Water/Temperature/Mowing Time example.  

Example: Assume that during a three-hour period spent outside, a person recorded the outside temperature, the time spent mowing the grass, and their water consumption.  

Use Excel to find the Multiple Correlation Coefficient, R if the amount of  the amount of water consumed is dependent on the temperature and the time spent mowing the grass.  Use the data given below.

Preliminaries: Entering the data. 

• Enter the temperature data in column 1, time mowing in column 2 and water consumption in column 3.  Put the category names in the title row.
• If you need help entering the data, see the Introduction to Minitab tutorial.

1. Select Stat> Regression> Regression
2. Select water consumption for your response variable.
3. Select temperature and time mowing as your predictor variables.
4. Click OK.
5. Save the data. Select FILE > SAVE AS. Call the data set Minitabmultidata. (You will use the data again in future tutorials.)

• Click here to check and interpret your answers. 

Learn the Procedure for calculating the multiple regression coefficient

 

Don't skip looking at the Terms for Multiple Regression.  

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