Key Features

New Platforms

• The new Graph Builder platform lets you construct graphs interactively as you explore your continuous and categorical data.
• Drag and drop to instantly create scatterplots, bar charts, histograms, trend lines, box plots and more.
• Visually compare across grouping levels for insightful analysis.
• Partition data by both continuous and categorical variables to easily see interactions.
• The new Choice platform helps you discover consumer preferences so you can tailor the features of products and services to consumer desires.
• Discover differences in market segments to create targeted offerings.
• Use what you know about consumer preferences to design your study.
• The integrated Profiler helps you understand, visualize and optimize products and services.
• Get utility scores for segmenting/clustering your data.
• Use Firth bias-corrected maximum likelihood estimators.
• New additions to the Reliability platform improve your understanding of product and part lifetimes.
• Use Fit Life by X to analyze lifetime events for accelerated test data. Compare different distributions at the same factor level or the same distribution across different factor levels.
• Use Life Distribution to find the most suitable distributional model for your time-to-event data and make predictions. Weibull, Lognormal, Fréchet, Extreme Value and other distributions are available.
• Use Competing Causes analysis to explore failure causes in a system and understand the effects of repair.
• Mixture Profiler shows response contours for mixture experiment models, where three or more factors in the experiment are components in a mixture.
• Visualize and optimize response surfaces resulting from mixture experiments.

Integration with SAS®

• JMP 8 works with SAS 9.1.3 and SAS 9.2.
• A new SAS toolbar provides convenient access to SAS features.
• See and import data from your local SAS server connection in the Browse SAS Data window and through JSL.
• Take stratified random samples (using PROC SURVEYSELECT) when importing data from SAS.
• Get SAS results in HTML, PDF or RTF when you submit SAS code.
• New data sets created by submitted SAS code are now tracked and imported into JMP automatically.
• Get SAS procedure output in the familiar JMP report format.

Flash Output

• Export Bubble Plots and Profilers as Adobe Flash animations for use in Web pages, presentations and other documents.

Languages and Currency

• JMP 8 handles international character sets with ease.
• Use JMP interfaces in English, Japanese, Chinese, French, German and Korean.
• Include multiple currency types in a single data table.

Graphs

• Use new Bubble Plot Trail Lines to connect bubble trails for enhanced visualization of change over time.
• Contour Plot now has a Color Theme menu.
• All Control Charts can now shade zones.
• Surface Plot interface has been simplified.

Design of Experiments

• Design optimal Choice experiments for analysis in the Choice platform.
• Use the new design diagnostics outline node for all JMP designs.

Automatic recalculation

• Auto Recalc is now available in more platforms.

Variability and gauge charts

• A frequency column option is now available in the Variability launch window.
• The Variability platform has a new way to compute variance components using Bayesian estimation.
• A new bias report and graph shows the bias by each standard reference value used.
• Misclassification probabilities are now available for the Gauge R&R studies.
• Specify limits in Gauge R&R.
• Get parameter-estimates-type reports in the linearity report.
• Test both the slope and intercept.
• Test the slope to look for linearity issues.
• Make variability and standard deviation graphs vertical.

Capability analysis

• Goal plots can now draw a defect rate contour and shade Cpk regions.
• Interactively change the displayed Cpk threshold using a slider bar.
• Points appearing in goal plots now link directly to their respective columns in the original data table.