Minitab is a general statistics package from Minitab, Inc.  Stat/Transfer will read Minitab worksheets written by Versions 8 - 14 of Minitab and will write Version 11 worksheets.

Standard extension:  mtw

Reading Minitab Worksheets

Stat/Transfer reads Minitab columns.  It does not read the constants or matrices that may be stored in Minitab worksheets.

Version 12 of Minitab introduced a new project file type that may contain several worksheets along with other data.  Stat/Transfer does not extract separate worksheets from these project files.  You will need to use Minitab to save the worksheets you wish to transfer as separate worksheet files.

Stat/Transfer reads Minitab Versions through 14. 

Writing Minitab Worksheets

Stat/Transfer writes Minitab columns in Version 11 format, which can be read by all versions of Minitab.

Missing Values

Minitab recognizes missing values.

Output Variable Types

The output variable type that results from each target variable type is given in the following table: