Statistics of Quality

ISBN-13: 9780824797638 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 456 str.

Ghosh Ghosh; Subir Ghosh; William R. Schucany

Opis

Written in honor and in memory of Professor Donald B. Owen, this broadly based reference explains the role of statistics in improving the quality of collecting and analyzing information for a wide variety of applications.

Spis treści

Donald Owen's contributions to the statistics of quality; the quality of movement: where it stands and the role of statisticians in its future; a sequential test of some process capability indices; calibration of gasoline flow meters; some aspects of Hotelling's T2 statistic for multivariate quality control; magnetic field quality investigations for superconducting supercollider magnets; real experiments, real mistakes, real learning!; Taguchi's robust design and some alternatives; determining optimum settings of explanatory variables and measuring influence of observations in multiresponse experiments; developing measurement for experimentation; kattice squares; marginally and conditionally specified multivariate survival models: a survey; moments and wavelets in signal estimation; hierarchical Bayes models in contextual spatial classification; asymmetry and outlier detection using correspondence analysis; concrete statistics; numerical methods for use in preparing high-quality statistical tables; modelling quality standards with decision analysis in medicine and public health; quality and warranty: sensitivity of warranty cost models to distributional assumptions; on semiparametric estimation of a probability density; improving survey estimates using rotation design sampling; multicriteria optimization in sampling design.

O autorze

Subir Ghosh, William R. Schucany, William B. Smith