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Subject(s)

• Quality control [Browse]
• Quality assurance [Browse]

Series

• IMA monograph series ; 4. [More in this series]
• IMA monograph series ; 4 [More in this series]

Summary note

"Accurate measurements in clinical and industrial testing are often not possible. Each measurement contains what can be regarded as an uncontrollable component of error. The use of these measurements to control quality therefore inevitably leads to some right and some wrong conclusions. This book describes methods which can be used to control the frequency with which wrong conclusions will occur. It describes recent developments which can be employed when very few control measurements can be taken due to limitations of cost or technical difficulties."--Jacket.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (p. [254]-257) and index.

Contents

• Statistical concepts
• Some aspects of statistical quality control
• Historical note
• Control
• Industrial example
• Control and removal of ringiness
• Clinical testing
• Efficient use of data
• Average run length
• Control techniques
• Control statistics
• Sampling interval
• Randomness
• Statistical method
• Right and wrong decisions
• Small samples. Decisions and consequences
• Small samples
• Measurements
• Events
• Probability
• Statistical decision rules
• Summarizing parameters
• Distributions relevant to process and test control
• Binomial distribution
• The moments of a distribution
• Skewness and kurtosis
• The Poisson distribution
• Useful relationships
• The normal distribution
• Gamma variates
• Sum of variates
• Probability generating function
• The p.g.f. of a variate sum
• Moment generating function (m.g.f.)
• An important m.g.f. property
• Characteristic function
• Effective use of sampled data
• Efficient estimators
• Hypothesis testing
• Simple hypotheses
• Composite hypotheses
• Significance
• Central limit theorem
• Principles and criteria of statistical quality control
• Control of proportion of defective items
• Proportion defective control charts
• Variate transformation
• Better control rules
• Average run length of a Shewhart chart
• Double- and single-sided control schemes
• Choice between different schemes
• ARL profile
• More effective control charts.

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ISBN

• 0198536747
• 9780198536741

LCCN

00067604

OCLC

45460946

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