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Newsletter Archive - full copies of past Division newsletters
Statistics Body of Knowledge - our library content below focuses on the topics in this listing.
Designing Experiments – An Overview
Mini Paper Taken from the Spring 2000 Newsletter
This paper provides an overview of designed experiments and how to best use them...
- Filetype: pdf
- Publish date: 2000-04
- Keywords:Analysis of Variance (ANOVA), PDSA cycle, Replication, Repetition, Randomization, Signal-to-noise ratio, Completely randomized designs, Block designs, Latin square designs, Youden squares, Full factorial, Fractional factorial
Contexts of Statistical Practice
Winter 1998 Youden Address
Lessons of the quality movement may be applied to statistical practice just as they are to other business activities. Three aspects are discussed: viewing systems, developing customer knowledge, and using a learning cycle to produce improvement...
- Filetype: pdf
- Publish date: 1998-01
- Keywords:Communication, Statistical Methods, PDSA (plan – do – study - act) Cycle
Nonstatistical Skills That Can Help Statisticians Be More Effective
Mini Paper Appearing in Winter 1997 Newsletter
Organizations are adopting new approaches to management and operations. New skills are needed if statisticians are to take advantage of these opportunities. It is shown how these new skills have much in common with statistical thinking...
- Filetype: pdf
- Publish date: 1997-01
- Keywords:Statistical thinking, Communication, Organizational development, Consulting, PDSA cycle, Flowchart, interrelationship digraph, affinity diagrams
Measurement Systems Analysis - Revisited
Basic Tools Taken from the Summer 1993 Newsletter
This paper summarizes a collection of methods to study the stability and variability of measurement systems...
- Filetype: pdf
- Publish date: 1993-06
- Keywords:Measurement system analysis, Metrology, Gauge R&R, PDSA (plan-do-study-act) cycle, Individuals and moving range (X, mR) chart, Linear regression, sources of variation
