Statistical practice in business and industry

Contributors

Preface

1. Introduction

2. A History of Industrial Statistics

3. Statistical Consultancy

3.I. A Statistician in Industry

3.II. Black Belt Types

3.III. Statistical Consultancy Units at Universities

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

4. The Statistical Efficiency Conjecture

5. Management Statistics

6. Service Quality

7. Design and Analysis of Industrial Experiments

8. Data Mining

9. Using Statistical Process Control for Continual Improvement

10. Advanced Statistical Process Control

11. Measurement System Analysis

12. Safety and Reliability

12.I. Reliability Engineering: The State of the Art

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

13. Multivariate and Multiscale Data Analysis

14. Simulation in Industrial Statistics

15. Communication

Index