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Statistical method from the viewpoint of quality control

Title
Statistical method from the viewpoint of quality control, by Walter A. Shewhart ... with the editorial assistance of W. Edwards Deming.
Author
Shewhart, Walter A. (Walter Andrew), 1891-1967
Publication
Washington, The Graduate School, The Dept. of Agriculture, 1939.

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Additional Authors
  • Deming, W. Edwards (William Edwards), 1900-1993
  • Graduate School, USDA.
Description
ix, 155 pages tables, diagrams; 25 cm
Summary
The application of statistical methods in mass production make possible the most efficient use of raw materials and manufacturing processes, economical production, and the highest standards of quality for manufactured goods. In this classic volume, based on a series of ground-breaking lectures given to the Graduate School of the Department of Agriculture in 1938, Dr. Shewhart illuminated the fundamental principles and techniques basic to the efficient use of statistical method in attaining statistical control, establishing tolerance limits, presenting data, and specifying accuracy and precision. In the first chapter, devoted to statistical control, the author broadly defines the three steps in quality control: specification, production, and inspection; then outlines the historical background of quality control. This is followed by a rigorous discussion of the physical and mathematical states of statistical control, statistical control as an operation, the significance of statistical control and the future of statistics in mass production. Chapter II offers a thought-provoking treatment of the problem of establishing limits of variability, including the meaning of tolerance limits, establishing tolerance limits in the simplest cases and in practical cases, and standard methods of measuring. Chapter III explores the presentation of measurements of physical properties and constants. Among the topics considered are measurements presented as original data, characteristics of original data, summarizing original data (both by symmetric functions and by Tchebycheff's theorem), measurement presented as meaningful predictions, and measurement presented as knowledge. Finally, Dr. Shewhart deals with the problem of specifying accuracy and precision -- the meaning of accuracy and precision, operational meaning, verifiable procedures, minimum quantity of evidence needed for forming a judgment and more.
Subject
  • Quality control > Statistical methods
  • Quality control
  • quality control
  • Quality control > Statistical methods
  • Quality control
  • Statistische Qualitätskontrolle
Genre/Form
  • Statistics.
  • Statistiques.
Note
  • "A series of four lectures ... before the Graduate School of the Department of Agriculture."--Pref.
Contents
Statistical control -- How establish limits of variability? --The presentation of the results of measurements of physical properties and constants -- The specification of accuracy and precision
LCCN
40004774
OCLC
  • ocm01249225
  • 1249225
  • SCSB-277928
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library