Cross Tabulation and Chi-Square
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Stat > Tables > Cross Tabulation and Chi-Square

Use to generate tables of counts and percents. You can also perform tests, such as the chi-square test for association, and choose your table layout.

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Raw data (categorical variables)

Rows: Enter the columns containing the categories that define the rows of the table.

Columns: Enter up to two columns containing the categories that define the columns of the table.

Layers: Enter one or more columns containing categories. Minitab splits the data into separate tables (or layers) for each category or combination of categories.

Frequencies (optional): If you have frequency data, enter the column containing the frequencies.

Summarized data in a two-way table

Columns containing the table: Enter the columns containing the contingency table data. Delete or combine rows or columns with missing data before using this procedure.

Labels for the table (optional): Use these options to add labels to the display of your output.

Rows: (Optional) Enter a column that contains labels for the values of the row variable. The name of this column becomes the name of the row variable.

Columns: (Optional) Enter the name of the column variable.

Display

Counts: Check to display the total number of values in each cell.

Row percents: Check to display the percentage each cell represents of the total observations in the table row.

Column percents: Check to display the percentage each cell represents of the total observations in the table column.

Total percents: Check to display the percentage each cell represents of all the observations in the table.

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