ABSTRACT

Many scientists and technologists would like to carry out their own statistical analyses without reference to a professional statistician. Often, however, they have no knowledge of statistics or otherwise do not know how to apply it to research and development problems. The first edition of Statistics in Research and Development was written for the

chapter 1|4 pages

What is statistics?

chapter 2|22 pages

Describing the sample

chapter 3|24 pages

Describing the population

chapter 4|15 pages

Testing and estimation: one sample

chapter 5|15 pages

Testing and estimation: two samples

chapter 6|19 pages

Testing and estimation: qualitative data

chapter 7|17 pages

Testing and estimation: assumptions

chapter 8|29 pages

Statistical process control

chapter 9|26 pages

Detecting process changes

chapter 10|24 pages

Investigating the process - an experiment

chapter 11|22 pages

Why was the experiment not successful?

chapter 12|40 pages

Some simple but effective experiments

chapter 13|29 pages

Adapting the simple experiments

chapter 14|23 pages

Improving a bad experiment

chapter 15|28 pages

Analysis of variance

chapter 16|30 pages

An introduction to Taguchi techniques