The Pocket Statistician: A Practical Guide to Quality Improvement

by Roger Jones, Shirley Coleman, Shirley Coleman, et al.

Statistical process control and the use of designed experiments in industry have led to some remarkable successes in recent years. Many of these have been well publicized, as has the contribution of statistical methods to the development of industrial supremacy in the Pacific Rim nations. Nevertheless, statisticians are often heard to bewail the fact that these methods are not so widely used as they might be. The purpose of The Pocket Statistician...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 034067721X
• ISBN13: 9780340677216
• Release Date: September 1996
• Publisher: Hodder Education Publishers
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 4.7" x 6.5"

Customer Reviews

A guide for practitioners

If you are an engineer, or an operations manager in a manufacturing plant, or anyone else who does not have an academic grounding in statistical methods but would like to use such methods for quality improvement, then this could well be the perfect book for you. It explains, in simple language, how you can use statistical process control and design of experiments to make rapid, significant, measurable improvements to whatever processes underpin your business. The data that you need to work through the examples is provided on an accompanying CD. Once you have worked your way through the book, it is great to keep on your desk as a handbook as you implement your improvement programme. A small book, as the title implies, but packed with useful information.