1.6 Note and Tip Box
The appendices offer reference material including Appendix A, an introduction to using JMP and SAS together; Appendix B, a glossary of terms used in this book; and Appendix C (see Figure 1.7), a JMP 15 Quick Guide that provides essential menu steps to perform a specific analysis (if you know what you want).
Figure 1.7 JMP Quick Guide
1.2 Launching JMP
Let’s begin by launching JMP. To launch JMP from the Microsoft Windows Start menu:
1. Select the Start menu.
2. Scroll to JMP 15.
3. Select JMP 15 JMP 15 (see Figure 1.8).
Note: Windows 10 users will begin with the Start Screen.
Figure 1.8 Opening JMP in Windows
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| JMP is offered in two versions: JMP and JMP Pro. JMP Pro contains more advanced predictive modeling tools that are beyond the scope of this book. Thus, you will find the steps that we cover in this book are identical in both versions. |
Macintosh users can click the JMP icon (see Figure 1.9) to launch JMP from the application dock. If the icon does not appear on the dock, select Finder Applications JMP 15.
Figure 1.9 Accessing JMP on a Mac
After JMP has launched, you might notice that two windows have also opened: Tip of the Day and JMP Home Window.
Tip of the Day
The Tip of the Day window is the first thing you see because it addresses the most common questions that new users ask such as, “How do I do X?” Well, the X in these common questions is represented and answered in more than 60 different Tip of the Day windows. You can scroll through them by clicking Next Tip at the bottom of the window (Figure 1.10). Some of the Tip boxes contain important and basic navigational hints, while others only apply to more advanced features in JMP.
Figure 1.10 Tip of the Day
Note the Enter Beginner’s Tutorial button. This tutorial walks you through a basic analysis of data, from opening data tables to creating graphs and results. JMP contains several other tutorials that are directed toward more specific types of problems and are found in the Help menu.
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| If you do not want to see the Tip of the Day window every time you launch JMP, you can simply uncheck the Show tips at startup box in the lower left corner of the window. |
The JMP Home Window
When you launch JMP, the Home Window appears (Figure 1.11). The Home Window organizes and helps you navigate data tables, documentation, and open files and any results that you have generated. If you tend to have several data tables and analyses running at the same time, the Home Window provides a convenient way to quickly navigate to what you want.
Figure 1.11 The JMP Home Window
By default, the Home Window is divided into two panels, which are:
a. The left panel contains recent files that you have accessed, listed from the most recently opened. If you are opening JMP for the first time, this panel should be blank.
b. The right panel titled “Window List” contains a list of open data tables files and their associated results. In JMP, you can have any number of data tables and results open, but only one active data file can be analyzed at any one time. You can double click on any item in this panel to activate it and bring it to the forefront.
While the Home Window enables you to navigate directly to a file or result, each data table and results window also provides shortcuts back to the Home Window. At the lower right of each window, select the icon that looks like a house to return to the Home Window (Figure 1.12).
Figure 1.12 Shortcut Back to the Home Window
A results window has a second icon, which is also the same icon used to denote “.jmp” formatted files called JMP Data Tables. Click on a Data Table icon and you will be taken to the corresponding data table for that results window (Figure 1.13). Note that if you are looking at a data table, you will not see this second icon because you are already in the data table window.
Figure 1.13 Shortcut Back to the Data Table
The check box with the down arrow button next to it enables you to combine multiple results windows or graphs into a single window or “dashboard.” We will discuss creating dashboards in Chapter 7.
1.3 JMP Menus
At the top of the Home Window, you will see a series of menus (File, Edit, Tables, and so on). These are the menus that we use to illustrate the concepts in this book. They are also the same menus that we refer to as JMP’s native menus because they have been present in JMP since its first release.
These menus serve to open or import data, to edit or structure it, and to create graphs and analyses of your data. They are also a valuable source for assistance through the Help menu, which is discussed later. The menus are logically sequenced from left to right (Figure 1.14).
Figure 1.14 JMP Native Menus
● File is where you go to open or import data and to save, print, or exit JMP. It is also where you can customize the appearance or settings within JMP through Preferences (explained in Section 1.5).
● Edit will appear when needed and provides the usual cut, clear, copy, paste, and select functions, as well as undo, redo, and special JMP functions.
● Tables provides the tools to manage, summarize, and structure your data. (See Section 2.6.)
● DOE contains the Design of Experiments tools. These tools are used to design experiments that are then used to collect data to eventually analyze. In this book, we assume you already have data in some form and thus will not cover DOE. For more information, see Help JMP Documentation Library DOE Guide.
● Analyze contains the analysis tools that generate both graphs and statistics and serves as the home for all of JMP’s statistical tools from simple to advanced (Chapters 5 and 6).
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