Essential Statistical Concepts for the Quality Professional

The essence of any root cause analysis in our modern quality thinking is to go beyond the actual problem. This means not only do we have to fix the problem at hand but we also have to identify why the failure occurred and what was the opportunity to apply the appropriate knowledge to avoid the problem in the future. Essential Statistical Concepts f

What is statistics? Data. Summarizing data. Tests and confidence intervals for means. Tests and confidence intervals for standard deviations. Tests of distributions and means. Planning the experiment and Analysis of Variance. Fitting functions. Typical sampling techniques. Understanding computer programs for design and estimating design power.