Improving almost anything : ideas and essays / George Box and friends.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Box, George E. P.

Contributor:

Box, George E. P.

Class of 1924 Book Fund.

Series:

Wiley series in probability and statistics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mathematical statistics.

Quality control--Statistical methods.

Quality control.

Experimental design.

Control theory.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xx, 598 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Edition:

Revised edition.

Place of Publication:

Hoboken, NJ : Wiley-Interscience, [2006]

Summary:

George Box has a unique ability to explain complex ideas simply and eloquently. This revised edition of his masterworks since 1982 clearly demonstrates the range of his wit and intellect. These fascinating readings represent the cornerstones in the theory and application of process improvement, product design, and process control. Readers will gain valuable insights into the fundamentals and philosophy of scientific method using statistics and how it can drive creativity and discovery.

Contents:

Friends of George Box xvi

My Professional Life xvii

Part A Some Thoughts on Process and Quality Improvement

A.1 Good Quality Costs Less? How Come?: From Quality Engineering, Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 85-90 (1990-91) 4

A.2 When Murphy Speaks-Listen: From Quality Progress, Vol. 22, No. 10, pp. 79-84 (1989) 10

A.3 Changing Management Policy to Improve Quality and Productivity: From Quality Engineering, Vol. 6, No. 4, pp. 719-724 (1994) 20

A.4 Scientific Method: The Generation of Knowledge: From Quality Engineering, Vol. 30, No. 1, pp. 47-50 (1997) 26

Part B Design of Experiments for Process Improvement

B.1 Do Interactions Matter?: From Quality Engineering, Vol. 2, No. 3, pp. 365-369 (1990) 37

B.2 Teaching Engineers Experimental Design with a Paper Helicopter: From Quality Engineering, Vol. 4, No. 3, pp. 453-459 (1992) 41

B.3 What Can You Find Out from Eight Experimental Runs?: From Quality Engineering, Vol. 4, No. 4, pp. 619-627 (1992) 48

B.4 What Can You Find Out from Sixteen Experimental Runs?: From Quality Engineering, Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 167-178 (1993) 57

B.5 What Can You Find Out From Twelve Experimental Runs?: (with S. Bisgaard) from Quality Engineering, Vol. 5, No. 4, pp. 663-668 (1993) 68

B.6 Sequential Experimentation and Sequential Assembly of Designs: From Quality Engineering, Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 321-330 (1993) 73

B.7 Must We Randomize Our Experiment?: From Quality Engineering, Vol. 2, No. 4, pp. 497-502 (1990) 82

B.8 Botched Experiments, Missing Observations, and Bad Values: From Quality Engineering, Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 249-254 (1990-91) 88

B.9 Graphics for Finding Bad Values in Factorial Designs: From Quality Engineering, Vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 405-410 (1991) 94

B.10 How to Get Lucky: From Quality Engineering, Vol. 5, No. 3, pp. 517-524 (1993) 99

B.11 Dispersion Effects from Fractional Designs: (with R. D. Meyer), from Technometrics, Vol. 28, No. 1, pp. 19-27 (1986) 107

B.12 The Importance of Practice in the Development of Statistics: From Technometrics, Vol. 26, No. 1, pp. 1-8 (1984) 125

B.13 Comparisons, Absolute Values, and How I Got to Go to the Folies Bergeres: From Quality Engineering, Vol. 14, No. 1, pp. 167-169 (2002) 137

Part C Sequential Investigation and Discovery

C.1 A Demonstration of Response Surface Methods: From "Statistics as a Catalyst to Learning by Scientific Method Part I, An Example" (With P. Y. T. Liu), Journal of Quality Technology, Vol. 31, No. 1, pp. 1-15 (1999) 148

C.2 Response Surface Methods: Some History: From "Statistics as a Catalyst to Learning by Scientific Method Part II, A Discussion," Journal of Quality Technology, Vol. 31, No. 1, pp. 16-29 (1999) 168

C.3 Statistics as a Catalyst to Learning: From "Statistics as a Catalyst to Learning by Scientific Method Part II, A Discussion," Journal of Quality Technology, Vol. 31, No. 1, pp. 16-29 (1999) 172

C.4 Experience as a Guide to Theoretical Development: From "Statistics as a Catalyst to Learning by Scientific Method. Response to the Discussion," Journal of Quality Technology, Vol. 31, No. 1, pp. 67-72 (1999) 180

C.5 The Invention of the Composite Design: From Quality Engineering, Vol. 12, No. 1, pp. 119-122 (1999-2000) 187

C.6 Finding the Active Factors in Fractionated Screening Experiments: (with R. D. Meyer) from Journal of Quality Technology, Vol. 25, No. 2, pp. 94-105 (1993) 193

C.7 Follow-up Designs to Resolve Confounding in Multifactor Experiments: (with R. D. Meyer and D. M. Steinberg) from Technometrics, Vol. 38, No. 4, pp. 303-313 (1996) 212

C.8 Projective Properties of Certain Orthogonal Arrays: (with J. Tyssedal) from Biometrika, Vol. 83, No. 4, pp. 950-955 (1996) 234

C.9 Choice of Response Surface Design and Alphabetic Optimality: From Utilitas Mathematica, Vol. 21B, pp. 11-55 (1982) 242

C.10 An Apology for Ecumenism in Statistics: From Scientific Inference, Data Analysis, and Robustness, G. E. P. Box, T. Leonard, and C.-F. Wu (eds.) Academic Press, pp. 51-84 (1983) 265

Part D Control

D.1 Six Sigma, Process Drift, Capability Indices, and Feedback Adjustment: (with A. Luceno), from Quality Engineering, Vol. 12, No. 3, pp. 297-302 (1999) 292

D.2 Understanding Exponential Smoothing: A Simple Way to Forecast Sales and Inventory: From Quality Engineering, Vol. 3, No. 4, pp. 561-566 (1991) 299

D.3 Feedback Control by Manual Adjustment: From Quality Engineering, Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 143-151 (1991) 306

D.4 Bounded Adjustment Charts: From Quality Engineering, Vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 331-338 (1991-92) 316

D.5 Statistical Process Monitoring and Feedback Adjustment-A Discussion: (with T. Kramer), from Technometrics, Vol. 34, No. 3, pp. 251-267 (1992) 324

D.6 Discrete Proportional-Integral Control with Constrained Adjustment: (with A. Luceno), from The Statistician, JRSS Series D, Vol. 44, No. 4, pp. 479-495 (1995) 353

D.7 Discrete Proportional-Integral Adjustment and Statistical Process Control: (with A. Luceno), from Journal of Quality Technology, Vol. 29, pp. 248-260 (1997) 370

D.8 Selection of Sampling Interval and Action Limit for Discrete Feedback Adjustment: (with A. Luceno), from Technometrics, Vol. 36, No. 4, pp. 369-378 (1994) 399

D.9 Use of Cusum Statistics in the Analysis of Data and in Process Monitoring: From Quality Engineering, Vol. 11, No. 3, pp. 495-498 (1999) 416

D.10 Influence of the Sampling Interval, Decision Limit, and Autocorrelation on the Average Run Length in Cusum Charts: (with A. Luceno), from Journal of Applied Statistics, Vol. 27, No. 2, pp. 177-183 (2000) 420

D.11 Cumulative Score Charts: (with J. Ramirez), from Quality and Reliability Engineering International, Vol. 8, pp. 17-27 (1992) 427

Part E Variance Reduction and Robustness

E.1 Multiple Sources of Variation: Variance Components: From Quality Engineering, Vol. 11, No. 1, pp. 171-174 (1998) 440

E.2 The Importance of Data Transformation in Designed Experiments for Life Testing: (with C. A. Fung), from Quality Engineering, Vol. 7, No. 3, pp. 625-638 (1995) 448

E.3 Is Your Robust Design Procedure Robust?: (with C. A. Fung), from Quality Engineering, Vol. 6, No. 3, pp. 503-514 (1994) 461

E.4 Split Plot Experiments: From Quality Engineering, Vol. 8, No. 3, pp. 515-520 (1996) 472

E.5 Robustness in Statistics: Extracted from "Statistics as a Catalyst to Learning by Scientific Method, Part II, A Discussion," Journal of Quality Technology, Vol. 31, No. 1, pp. 16-29 (1999) 480

E.6 Split Plots for Robust Product and Process Experimentation: (with S. Jones), Extracted from "Split plot designs for robust product experimentation," Journal of Applied Statistics, Vol. 19, No. 1, pp. 3-26 (1992b) and "Split plot designs for robust product and process experimentation," Quality Engineering, Vol. 13, No. 1. (2000), pp. 127-134 486

E.7 Designing Products that Are Robust to the Environment-A Response Surface Approach: (with S. Jones), from Total Quality Management, Vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 265-282 (1992a) and Journal of Applied Statistics, Vol. 19, No. 1, pp. 3-26, (1992b) 498

E.8 An Investigation of the Method of Accumulation Analysis: (with S. Jones), from Total Quality Management, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 101-113 (1990) 508

E.9 Signal-to-Noise Ratios, Performance Criteria, and Transformations: From Technometrics, Vol. 30, No. 1, pp. 1-17 (1988) 522

Part F Songs 551

F.1 There's No Theorem Like Bayes Theorem 553

F.2 It's Distribution Free 557

F.3 I Am the Very Model of a Professor Statistical 560.

Notes:

Rev. ed. of: Box on quality and discovery. c2000.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1924 Book Fund.

Related Work:

Box, George E. P. Box on quality and discovery.

ISBN:

0471727555

9780471727552

OCLC:

62110043

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