1. Edition - March 2008
87.90 Euro
2008. 450 Pages, Hardcover
ISBN-10: 0-470-01497-0
ISBN-13: 978-0-470-01497-4 - John Wiley & Sons






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Short description
Statistical Practice in Business and Industry covers all the latest advances, as well as more established methods, in the application of statistical and optimization methods within modern industry. These include applications from a range of industries that include micro-electronics, chemical, automotive, engineering, food, component assembly, household goods and plastics. Methods range from basic graphical approaches to generalized modeling, from designed experiments to process control. Solutions cover produce and process design, through manufacture to packaging and delivery, from single responses to multivariate problems.

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Contents


Contributors

Preface

1 Introduction

Shirley Coleman, Tony Fouweather and Dave Stewardson

2 A History of Industrial Statistics

Jeroen de Mast

3 Statistical Consultancy

3.I A Statistician in Industry

Ronald J.M.M. Does and Albert Trip

3.II Black Belt Types

Roland Caulcutt

3.III Statistical Consulstancy Units at Universities

Ronald J.M.M. Does and András Zempléni

3.IV Consultancy? . . . What's in It for Me?

Roland Caulcutt

4 The Statistical Efficiency Conjecture


Ron S. Kenett, Anne De Frenne, Xavier Tort-Martorell and Chris McCollin

5 Management Statistics

Irena Ograjenaek and Ron S. Kenett

6 Service Quality

Irena Ograjenaek

7 Design and Analysis of Industrial Experiments

Timothy J. Robinson

8 Data Mining

Paola Cerchiello, Silvia Figini and Paolo Giudici

9 Using Statistical Process Control for Continual Improvement

Donald J. Wheeler and Øystein Evandt

10 Advanced Statistical Process Control

Murat Kulahci and Connie Borror

11 Measurement System Analysis

Giulio Barbato, Grazia Vicario and Raffaello Levi

12 Safety and Reliability

12.I Reliability Engineering: The State of the Art

Chris McCollin

12.II Stochastics for the Quality Movement: An Integrated Approach to Reliability and Safety

M. F. Ramalhoto

13 Multivariate and Multiscale Data Analysis

Marco P. Seabra dos Reis and Pedro M. Saraiva

14 Simulation in Industrial Statistics

David R´1os Insua, Jorge Muruzabal, Jes´us Palomo, Fabrizio Ruggeri, Julio Holgado and Ra´ul Moreno

15 Communication

Tony Greenfield and John Logsdon Index