Thank you! Now if only I could have navigated Minitab's help system to find
this subcommand. I cannot find this documented anywhere in the online help.



[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dennis Roberts) wrote in message 
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> you can only do it in the describe command ... and, there is a subcommand 
> called DECI ...
> 
> look at the following
> 
> MTB > desc c1
> 
> Descriptive Statistics: C1
> 
> 
> Variable             N       Mean     Median     TrMean      StDev    SE Mean
> C1                  30     30.532     31.530     30.530      4.122      0.753
> 
> Variable       Minimum    Maximum         Q1         Q3
> C1              23.705     38.952     26.040     34.045
> 
> MTB > desc c1;
> SUBC> deci 5.
> 
> Descriptive Statistics: C1
> 
> 
> Variable             N       Mean     Median     TrMean      StDev    SE Mean
> C1                  30   30.53155   31.53014   30.52975    4.12185    0.75254
> 
> Variable       Minimum    Maximum         Q1         Q3
> C1            23.70501   38.95249   26.04035   34.04474
> 
> i don't think you really have any control over decimal places mtb uses and 
> prints out ... other than this
> 
> 
> 
> At 08:54 PM 1/10/03 -0800, Mike wrote:
> >How does one set the number of significant digits that Minitab outputs
> >in its describe command ?
> >
> >In Splus, I would do something like options(digits=10).
> >
> >Minitab is rounding my output too much and I want to put a stop to it.
> >
> >Thanks!
> >.
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