the basics of sigmaxl
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An introduction to some of the basic functions of SigmaXL Established in 1998, SigmaXL Inc. is a leading provider of user friendly Excel Add-ins for Lean Six Sigma graphical and statistical tools and Monte Carlo simulation. SigmaXL® customers include market leaders like Agilent, Diebold, FedEx, Microsoft, Motorola and Shell. SigmaXL® software is also used by numerous colleges, universities and government agencies. Our flagship product, SigmaXL®, was designed from the ground up to be a cost-effective, powerful, but easy to use tool that enables users to measure, analyze, improve and control their service, transactional, and manufacturing processes. As an add-in to the already familiar Microsoft Excel, SigmaXL® is ideal for Lean Six Sigma training and application, or use in a college statistics course. DiscoverSim™ enables you to quantify your risk through Monte Carlo simulation and minimize your risk with global optimization. Business decisions are often based on assumptions with a single point value estimate or an average, resulting in unexpected outcomes. DiscoverSim™ allows you to model the uncertainty in your inputs so that you know what to expect in your outputs.TRANSCRIPT
The Basics - SigmaXL®
Version 6.1
Introducing SigmaXL®
Why SigmaXL?
What’s Unique to SigmaXL?
Recall Last Dialog
Worksheet Manager
Data Manipulation
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Introducing SigmaXL®
Version 6.1
Powerful.
User-Friendly.
Cost-Effective. Priced at $249, SigmaXL is a fraction
of the cost of any major statistical product, yet it has
all the functionality most professionals need.
Quantity, Educational, and Training discounts are
available.
Visit www.SigmaXL.com or call
1-888-SigmaXL (1-888-744-6295) for more
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Why SigmaXL?
Measure, Analyze, and Control your Manufacturing, Service, or Transactional Process.
An add-in to the already familiar Microsoft Excel, making it a great tool for Lean Six Sigma training. Used by Motorola University and other leading consultants.
SigmaXL is rapidly becoming the tool of choice for Quality and Business Professionals.
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What’s Unique to
SigmaXL?
User-friendly Design of Experiments with “view power analysis as you design”.
Measurement Systems Analysis with Confidence Intervals.
Two-sample comparison test - automatically tests for normality, equal variance, means, and medians, and provides a rules-based yellow highlight to aid the user in interpretation of the output.
Low p-values are highlighted in red indicating that results are significant.
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What’s Unique to
SigmaXL?
Powerful Excel Worksheet Manager List all open Excel workbooks
Display all worksheets and chart sheets in selected workbook
Quickly select worksheet or chart sheet of interest
Process Capability and Control Charts for Nonnormal data Best fit automatically selects the best distribution or transformation!
Nonnormal Process Capability Indices include Pp, Ppk, Cp, and Cpk
Box-Cox Transformation with Threshold so that data with zero or negative values can be transformed!
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Recall Last Dialog
Recall SigmaXL Dialog
This will activate the last data worksheet and recall
the last dialog, making it very easy to do repetitive
analysis.
Activate Last Worksheet
This will activate the last data worksheet used
without recalling the dialog.
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Worksheet Manager
List all open Excel
workbooks
Display all worksheets
and chart sheets in
selected workbook
Quickly select
worksheet or chart
sheet of interest
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Data Manipulation
Subset by Category, Number, or Date
Random Subset
Stack and Unstack Columns
Stack Subgroups Across Rows
Standardize Data
Random Number Generators
Normal, Uniform (Continuous & Integer), Lognormal, Exponential, Weibull and Triangular.
Box-Cox Transformation Back to Index