Title | Quality Improvement Through Statistical Methods [electronic resource] / edited by Bovas Abraham |
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Imprint | Boston, MA : Birkhรคuser Boston : Imprint: Birkhรคuser, 1998 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-1776-3 |
Descript | XXXIII, 442 p. online resource |
1. Scientific Learning -- 2. Industrial Statistics and Innovation -- 3. Understanding QS-9000 With Its Preventive and Statistical Focus -- 4. A Conceptual Framework for Variation Reduction -- 5. The Role of Academic Statisticians in Quality Improvement: Strategies of Small and Medium Sized Companies -- 6. Developing Optimal Regulation and Monitoring Strategies to Control a Continuous Petrochemical Process -- 7. Capability Indices when Tolerances are Asymmetric -- 8. Robustness of On-line Control Procedures -- 9. An Application of Filtering to Statistical Process Control -- 10. Statistical Process Control and Its Applications in Korean Industries -- 11. Multivariate Statistical Process Control of a Mineral Processing Industry -- 12. Developing Objective Strategies for Monitoring Multi-Input/Single-Output Chemical Processes -- 13. Properties of the Cpm Index for Seemingly Unstable Production Processes -- 14. Process Capability Indices for Contaminated Bivariate Normal Population -- 15. Quality Improvements by Likelihood Ratio Methods for Surveillance -- 16. Properties of the Taguchi Capability Index for Markov Dependent Quality Characteristics -- 17. Fast Model Search for Designed Experiments with Complex Aliasing -- 18. Optimal 12 Run Designs -- 19. Robustness ofD-Optimal Experimental Designs for Mixture Studies -- 20. A Bivariate Plot Useful in Selecting a Robust Design -- 21. Process Optimization Through Designed Experiments: Two Case Studies -- 22. Technological Aspects of TQM -- 23. On Robust Design for Multiple Quality Characteristics -- 24. Simultaneous Optimization of Multiple Responses Using a Weighted Desirability Function -- 25. Evaluating Statistical Methods Practiced in Two Important Areas of Quality Improvement -- 26. Applications of Generalized Linear Models in Reliability Studies for Composite Materials -- 27. Bivariate Failure Rates in Discrete Time -- 28. A General Approach of Studying Random Environmental Models -- 29. Testing for Change Points Expressed in Terms of the Mean Residual Life Function -- 30. Empirical Bayes Procedures for Testing the Quality and Reliability With Respect to Mean Life -- 31. On a Test of Independence in a Multivariate Exponential Distribution -- 32. Random Walk Approximation of Confidence Intervals -- 33. A Study of Quality Costs in a Multicomponent and Low Volume Products Automated Manufacturing System -- 34. Estimating Dose Response Curves -- 35. On the Quality of Preterm Infants Formula and the Longitudinal Change in Mineral Contents in Human Milk