Yutaka Tanaka – författare

Professor Woodall’s essay shows that this book represents a remarkable contribution, even by today’s standards, because of its contemporary thinking about the relationship between the specific topic of SQC and the broader company context of Quality Management.  It also demonstrates the remarkable awareness of at least some young US engineers in the post-war period about the vital role of Statistical Quality Control in establishing and maintaining a competitive position. The book reveals that there was unsuspected knowledge extant immediately post-war, about the importance of Statistical Quality Control when appropriately applied in an industrial setting.  It also helps to correct wide-spread historical misconceptions about who specifically was responsible for helping Japanese industry get back on its feet post-war, a task assigned to General Douglas Macarthur by President Truman and how Macarthur was indebted to Sarasohn.

This is the proceedings of the Fifth Conference of the International Federation of Classification Societies held in Kobe, Japan, on March 27-30, 1996: The astounding increase in computer usage over the past decade and the ever-increasing scope of global communication networks have ushered in the information age; however, human intelligence is required to make sense of this sea of data and to use it effectively. Consequently, the rapidly developing cross-disciplinary field of data science has come of age. This volume contains selected papers from the Fifth Conference of the International Federation of Classification Societies (IFCS-96), held in Kobe, Japan, in March 1996. A wide range of topics is covered, including theoretical and methodological advances relating to data gathering, classification and clustering, exploratory and multivariate data analysis, and knowledge seeking and discovery. A broad view of the state of the art is presented, making this an essential work not only for data analysts, mathematicians, and statisticians but also for researchers involved in data processing at all stages from data gathering to decision making.