This book aims to enable readers to understand and implement, via the widely used statistical software package Minitab (Release 16), statistical methods fundamental to the Six Sigma approach to the continuous improvement of products, processes and services.
The second edition includes the following new material:
- Pareto charts and Cause-and-Effect diagrams
- Time-weighted control charts cumulative sum (CUSUM) and exponentially weighted moving average (EWMA)
- Multivariate control charts
- Acceptance sampling by attributes and variables (not provided in Release 14)
- Tests of association using the chi-square distribution
- Logistic regression
- Taguchi experimental designs
Content:
Chapter 1 Introduction (pages 1โ11):
Chapter 2 Data Display, Summary and Manipulation (pages 13โ62):
Chapter 3 Exploratory Data Analysis, Display and Summary of Multivariate Data (pages 63โ92):
Chapter 4 Statistical Models (pages 93โ139):
Chapter 5 Control Charts (pages 141โ201):
Chapter 6 Process Capability Analysis (pages 203โ223):
Chapter 7 Process Experimentation with a Single Factor (pages 225โ302):
Chapter 8 Process Experimentation with Two or More Factors (pages 303โ389):
Chapter 9 Evaluation of Measurement Processes (pages 391โ412):
Chapter 10 Regression and Model Building (pages 413โ458):
Chapter 11 Learning More and Further Minitab (pages 459โ482):