Arrangement of output tables

Minitab has several layout options for your tables.

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Layout options
What are one-way output tables?
What are two-way output tables?
What are multi-way output tables?
How two-way output tables that include layering variables are arranged

Layout options

The layout options for an output table depend on the following variables:

The number of categorical variables
The designation of categorical variables into rows and columns
The layering of categorical variables

You can choose to arrange categorical variables into rows or columns. You can organize variables to emphasize a relationship, or you can create a more compact display for a report.

What are one-way output tables?

A one-way table displays data for one categorical variable.

Rows: Gender Count Female 35 Male 56 All 91

What are two-way output tables?

A two-way table displays data for two categorical variables.

Rows: Gender Columns: Smokes No Yes All Female 27 8 35 Male 37 19 56 All 64 27 91 Cell Contents Count

What are multi-way output tables?

A multi-way table displays data for more than three categorical variables

Rows: Gender / Smokes Columns: Activity Not Slightly Very active active active All Female No 3 20 4 27 Yes 1 6 1 8 Male No 3 22 12 37 Yes 2 13 4 19 All All 9 61 21 91 Cell Contents Count

How two-way output tables that include layering variables are arranged

Layering creates separate tables for each level of the layering variable. This example shows separate two-way tables for each level of the layering variable, Activity.

Results for Activity = Slightly active

Rows: Gender Columns: Smokes No Yes All Female 20 6 26 Male 12 4 16 All 32 10 42 Cell Contents Count

Results for Activity = Very active

Rows: Gender Columns: Smokes No Yes All Female 4 1 5 Male 3 1 4 All 7 2 9 Cell Contents Count