JMP Essentials: An Illustrated Step-by-Step Guide for New Users, Second Edition

Grasp essential steps in order to generate meaningful results quickly with JMP.

JMP Essentials: An Illustrated Step-by-Step Guide for New Users, Second Edition is designed for the new or occasional JMP user who needs to generate meaningful graphs or results quickly. Drawing on their own experience working with these customers, the authors provide essential steps for what new users typically need to carry out with JMP. This newest edition has all new instructions and screen shots reflecting the latest release of JMP software. In addition, it has eight new detailed sections and 10 new subsections that include creating maps, filtering data, creating dashboards, and working with Excel data, all of which highlight new, useful and basic level enhancements to JMP.

The format of the book is unique. It adopts a show-and-tell design with essential step-by-step instructions and corresponding screen illustrations, which help users quickly see how to generate the desired results. In most cases, each section completes a JMP task, which maximizes the book's utility as a reference. In addition, each chapter contains a family of features that are carefully crafted to first introduce you to basic features and then on to more advanced ones. JMP Essentials: An Illustrated Step-by-Step Guide for New Users, Second Edition is the quickest and most accessible reference book available.

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Curt Hinrichs has been with the JMP Division of SAS since 2006 and is Senior Manager of JMP Academic Programs, which provide faculty, researchers, and students with easy access to JMP software and instructional programs and resources to promote its use in the classroom. Prior to joining SAS Hinrichs worked for Thomson Learning where he served as acquisitions editor for the applied statistics and statistical computing lists, and later as publisher and vice president and editor in chief for its Mathematics and Statistics Publishing Group.

Chuck Boiler is the U.S. Systems Engineer Manager for JMP, a business unit of SAS. Since joining SAS in 1997, he has held management roles with JMP and helped develop solutions for conducting many types of analysis, including design of experiments for the semiconductor industry, quality control for pharmaceutical manufacturing, and marketing applications for survey analysis using JMP. Boiler currently works with customers and U.S. field engineering staff to help them solve business problems and discover hidden opportunities in data. Earlier in his career he worked for Abacus Concepts, makers of StatView software, as technical services manager and software quality assurance manager. A member of the American Society of Quality, Boiler received a bachelor's degree in education from the University of Oregon and has done graduate work in ancient philosophy at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California. He is a graduate of Gallup University's Great Manager Program.