Not sure why you want all the digits in Describe. Minitab prints a few more than we usually need.
If you really want more store the results in a Worksheet.
Minitab does all of it's calculations in double precision even if you don't see them.
Choose Stat > Basic Statistics > Store Descriptive Statistics.
Anything stored in the worksheet is double precision but to see all the digits you need to
reformat the column. of interest. Right-click the column of interest and select
Format Column > Numeric. Fixed decimal with 17 decimal places shows all the ugly details!
Jon Cryer
At 08:54 PM 1/10/2003 -0800, you wrote:
Jon Cryer, Professor EmeritusHow 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! . . ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at: . http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ . =================================================================
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