Minitab is a statistics package developed at the Pennsylvania State University by researchers Barbara F. Ryan, Thomas A. Ryan, Jr., and Brian L. Joiner in conjunction with Triola Statistics Company in 1972.

It began as a light version of OMNITAB, a statistical analysis program by National Institute of Standards and Technology.

It began as a light version of OMNITAB, a statistical analysis program by NIST, which was conceived by Joseph Hilsenrath in years 1962–1964 for the IBM 7090.

[5] As of 2024, Minitab LLC had subsidiaries in the Netherlands, UK, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan and Australia.

In October 2020, Minitab launched the first cloud-based version of its statistical software.