一、前言MINITAB 是国际上通用的统计软件,与 SAS,GLIM,GENSTAT 和 SPSS 等统计软件程序包相比,它具有操作容易,使用灵活等特点,非常适合那些没有专门学过电子计算机,但又需要用计算机进行统计分析的科技人员使用。由于 MINITAB 在统计资料的初步分析,作图和回归分析方面具有较强的功能,因此一直受到广大科技人员,特别是农业生物科学方面的科技人员的欢迎,近年来,在国外的科研机构和大学里,MINITAB 的使用已经非常普遍,在我国,目前也有些科研单位和高等院校,相继引进和开始使用 MINITAB 和其它统计软件。MINITAB 虽然具有许多优点,但在方差分析方面,它只提供了单向方差分析(ONEWAY ANOVA)和双向方差分析(TWOWAY ANOVA)的几条命令,这 I. INTRODUCTION MINITAB is an internationally popular statistical software. Compared with other statistical software packages such as SAS, GLIM, GENSTAT and SPSS, MINITAB is easy to operate and flexible to use. It is very suitable for those who have not studied electronic computers specially Need to use the computer for statistical analysis of scientific and technical personnel. As MINITAB has strong functions in preliminary analysis, mapping and regression analysis of statistics, it has been welcomed by scientific and technical personnel, especially scientific and technical personnel in agricultural biological sciences. In recent years, MINITAB has been widely used in scientific research institutions and universities in foreign countries. In the use of MINITAB has been very common in our country, there are also some research institutes and institutions of higher learning, have introduced and started to use MINITAB and other statistical software. Although MINITAB has many advantages, it provides only a few commands for analysis of variance (ONEWAY ANOVA) and two-way ANOVA (TWOWAY ANOVA), which