The Pocket Statistician A Practical Guide to Quality Improvement

by Coleman, Shirley; Greenfield, Tony; Jones, Roger; Morris, Clare; Puzey, Ian

• ISBN13: 9780340677216
• ISBN10: 034067721X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-09-27
• Publisher: Hodder Education Publishers

Summary

Statistical process control and the use of designed experiments in industry have led to some remarkable successes in recent years. Many of these have been well publicized, as has the contribution of statistical methods to the development of industrial supremacy in the Pacific Rim nations. Nevertheless, statisticians are often heard to bewail the fact that these methods are not so widely used as they might be. The purpose of The Pocket Statistician is therefore to provide, in five handy chapters, a practical guide to the use of statistics in industry. Rather than expounding the underlying theory, the authors have provided insight into what methods can do and how they do it; and knowing that the intended readership are busy people the discussions have been kept as concise as possible. A data disk is included in the back so that the analyses can be practiced immediately.

Table of Contents

List of contributors	iv	(1)
Preface	v
1 Getting started	1	(28)
Ian Puzey
2 Making sense of data	29	(51)
Clare Morris
3 Picture your numbers	80	(42)
Tony Greenfield
4 Why design experiments	122	(72)
Shirley Coleman
5 Understanding SPC charts	194	(51)
Roger Jones
A last word	245	(2)
Index	247