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"There are three kinds of
lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics"
Benjamin Disraeli
Statements like these give statistics a
bad name. Personally I prefer the following quotes by Scottish mathematician
and physicist Lord
Kelvin.
"If you can not measure
it, you can not improve it"
"When you can measure what
you are speaking about and express it in numbers you know something about
it"
Statistics is a set of tools used to organise
and analyse data. Statistics are an essential element of quality improvement
and it is important that every quality professional has an understanding
of the basic statistical tools. On this page you can find statistics articles
and links to some of the best statistical resources and text books available
on the internet.
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A Guide for Business Improvement
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SPC is a most important technique to
help ensure your processes consistently meet the needs of your customers.
Topics covered include:
- Introduction
- Getting started
- Control charts in general
- Control charts for variables
- Control charts for attributes
- Chart interpretation
- Capability
- Summary of the process improvement stages
- Topics related to charting
- Control charts for special situations
- Capability estimations |
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The Future
of Statistics in Quality Engineering and Management
This paper asks the question whether statistics has a future in supporting
quality improvement and argues that statisticians’ attitudes were
potentially the biggest danger to the existence of that future. Please
don't be put off its a fantastic and insightful read...
Professor
Tony Bendell Services Ltd
Statsofts
Electronic Textbook
Unbelievable amount of information from Elementary Concepts to Experimental
Design...
StatPrimer
Statistical Tutorials and Exercises by B. Gerstman from San Jose State
University...
SticiGui©
These Statistics Tools for Internet and Classroom Instruction aim to help
students to think logically about quantitative evidence and to translate
real-world situations into mathematical questions...
Statistics at Square
One
Dougal Swinscow's Statistics at Square One which was one of the best selling
statistical text books in the UK is revised for the internet by M J Campbell,
University of Southampton...
Concepts
and Applications of Inferential Statistics
A free, full-length, and occasionally interactive statistics textbook
from VassarStats (one of my personal favourites)...
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Statistics for
Dummies
Allen L., Ph.D. Webster, Mary Jane Sterling |
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for Dummies is a simple, clear, direct guide that enables any reader
to feel confident interpreting data and applying the concepts of
statistics. Statistics For Dummies will help readers take the "margin
of error" out of opinion polls. It will explain statistical
concepts like "mean," "media," and "probability"
and help readers develop confidence analysing and interpreting business
data for improved on-the-job performance. |
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UK |
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US |
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Links
Statistics
Jokes
Gary C. Ramseyer's first internet gallery of statistics jokes...
Statistics
Fun
Gary C. Ramseyer's archives of statistics fun...
Statistical
Cartoons
Statistical Cartoons by Ben Shabad...
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