Statistical Practice in Business and Industry

The Editors, Shirley Coleman, Tony Greenfield, Dave Stewardson, and Douglas C. Montgomery, are section leaders in ENBIS — European Network for Business and Industrial Statistics — an organisation for the encouragement of exchange of ideas and methods of best practice between academia and industry across different countries.

"The book can be recommended to any interested in the application of statistical methods in business."  (Statistical Papers, 6 July 2011)

• Contents ContributorsPreface1 IntroductionShirley Coleman, Tony Fouweather and Dave Stewardson2 A History of Industrial StatisticsJeroen de Mast3 Statistical Consultancy3.I A Statistician in IndustryRonald J.M.M. Does and Albert Trip3.II Black Belt TypesRoland Caulcutt3.III Statistical Consulstancy Units at UniversitiesRonald J.M.M. Does and András Zempléni3.IV Consultancy? . . . What's in It for Me?Roland Caulcutt4 The Statistical Efficiency ConjectureRon S. Kenett, Anne De Frenne, Xavier Tort-Martorell and Chris McCollin5 Management StatisticsIrena Ograjenšek and Ron S. Kenett6 Service QualityIrena Ograjenšek7 Design and Analysis of Industrial ExperimentsTimothy J. Robinson8 Data MiningPaola Cerchiello, Silvia Figini and Paolo Giudici9 Using Statistical Process Control for Continual ImprovementDonald J. Wheeler and Øystein Evandt10 Advanced Statistical Process ControlMurat Kulahci and Connie Borror11 Measurement System AnalysisGiulio Barbato, Grazia Vicario and Raffaello Levi12 Safety and Reliability12.I Reliability Engineering: The State of the ArtChris McCollin12.II Stochastics for the Quality Movement: An Integrated Approach to Reliability and SafetyM. F. Ramalhoto13 Multivariate and Multiscale Data AnalysisMarco P. Seabra dos Reis and Pedro M. Saraiva14 Simulation in Industrial StatisticsDavid R´ıos Insua, Jorge Muruzabal, Jes´us Palomo, Fabrizio Ruggeri, Julio Holgado and Ra´ul Moreno15 CommunicationTony Greenfield and John Logsdon Index