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HANDBOOK OF STATISTICAL METHODS FOR ENGINEERS AND SCIENTISTS Harrison M. Wadsworth, Jr. Editor Second Edition MCGRAW-HILL New York San Francisco Washington, D. C. Auckland Bogota Caracas Lisbon London Madrid Mexico City Milan Montreal New Delhi San Juan Singapore Sydney Tokyo Toronto

Transcript of HANDBOOK OF STATISTICAL METHODS FOR ENGINEERS AND SCIENTISTS

HANDBOOK OF STATISTICAL

METHODS FOR ENGINEERS AND SCIENTISTS

Harrison M. Wadsworth, Jr. Editor

Second Edition

MCGRAW-HILL New York San Francisco Washington, D. C. Auckland Bogota

Caracas Lisbon London Madrid Mexico City Milan Montreal New Delhi San Juan Singapore

Sydney Tokyo Toronto

CONTENTS

Contributors vii Preface ix

Part 1 The Fundamentals

Chapter 1. Introduction and Use of the Handbook 1.1

Harrison M. Wadsworth, Jr.

Chapter 2. Summarization and Interpretation of Data 2.1

Harrison M. Wadsworth, Jr.

Chapter 3. Graphic Methods for Quality Improvement 3.1

A. Blanton Godfrey

Part 2 Basic Statistical Methods

Chapter 4. Probability Distributions and Statistical Inference 4.1

Harrison M. Wadsworth, Jr.

Chapter 5. Statistical Intervals 5.1

Gerald J. Hahn

Chapter 6. Selection, Fitting, and Testing Statistical Models 6.1

Samuel S. Shapiro

Part 3 Intermediate Methods

Chapter 7. Statistical Process Control 7.1

William H. Woodall and Benjamin M. Adams

Chapter 8. Acceptance Sampling 8.1

Harrison M. Wadsworth, Jr.

Chapter 9. Analysis and Presentation of Reliability Data 9.1

Jeffrey H. Hooper and Sigmund J. Amster

Chapter 10. Survey Sampling Methods 10.1

Keith R. Eberhardt

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Chapter 11. Bayesian Analysis 11.1

Thomas W. Calvin

Chapter 12. Nonparametric Statistics 12.1

Jean Dickinson Gibbons

Chapter 13. Discrete-Event Computer Simulation 13.1

Jerry Banks, David Goldsman, and John S. Carson, II

Chapter 14. Linear Regression 14.1

Thomas P. Ryan

Chapter 15. Design and Analysis of Experiments 15.1

Peter R. Nelson

Part 4 Advanced Statistical Concepts

Chapter 16. Multicollinearity and Biased Estimation in Regression 16.1

Douglas C. Montgomery, Elizabeth A. Peck, and

James R. Simpson

Chapter 17. Robust Estimation and Identifying Outliers 17.1

Peter J. Rousseeuw

Chapter 18. Nonlinear Regression 18.1

James J. Swain

Chapter 19. Time Series Analysis 19.1

Frank B. Alt, Ken Hung, and Lap-Ming Wun

Chapter 20. Robust Design Methods 20.1

Raghu N. Kacker and Subir Ghosh

Chapter 21. Multivariate Quality Control 21.1

Frank B. Alt, Nancy D. Smith, and Kamlesh Jain

Appendix A.1 Name Index 1.1 Subject Index 1.11