Basic Engineering Data Collection and Analysis

1. INTRODUCTION Engineering Statistics: What and Why? / Basic Terminology / Measurement: Its Importance and Difficulty / Mathematical Models, Reality and Data Analysis 2. DATA COLLECTION General Principles in the Collection of Engineering Data / Sampling in Enumerative Studies / Principles for Effective Experimentation / Some Common Experimental Plans / Preparing to Collect Engineering Data 3. ELEMENTARY DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS Elementary Graphical and Tabular Treatment of Quantitative Data / Quantiles and Related Graphical Tools / Standard Numerical Summary Measures / Descriptive Statistics for Qualitative and Count Data (Optional) 4. DESCRIBING RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN VARIABLES Fitting a Line by Least Squares / Fitting Curves and Surfaces by Least Squares / Fitted Effects for Factorial Data / Transformations and Choice of Measurement Scale (Optional) 5. THE PROBABILITY: THE MATHEMATICS OF RANDOMNESS (Discrete) Random Variables / Continuous Random Variables / Probability Plotting (Optional) / Joint Distributions and Independence / Functions of Several Random Variables 6. INTRODUCTION TO FORMAL STATISTICAL INFERENCE Large-Sample Confidence Intervals for a Mean / Large-Sample Significance Tests for a Mean / One-and Two-Sample Inference Means / One- and Two-Sample Inference for Variances / One- and Two-Sample Inference for Proportions / Prediction and Tolerance Intervals 7. INFERENCE OF UNSTRUCTURED MULTISAMPLE STUDIES The One-Way Normal Method / Simple Confidence Intervals in Multisample Studies / Two Simultaneous Confidence Interval Methods / The One-Way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) / Shewhart Control Charts for Measurement Data / Shewhart Control Charts for Qualitative and Count Data 8. INFERENCE FOR FULL AND FRACTIONAL FACTORIAL STUDIES Basic Inference in Two-Way Factorials with Some Replication / p-Factor Studies with Two Levels for Each Factor / Standard Fractions of Two-Level Factorials; Part I: 1/2 Fractions / Standard Fractions of Two-Level Factorials; Part II: General 2"p-1" Studies 9. REGRESSION ANALYSIS-INFERENCE FOR CURVE- AND SURFACE-FITTING Inference Methods Related to Least Squares Fitting of a Line (Simple Linear Method) / Inference Methods for General Least Squares Curve- and Surface-Fitting (Multiple Linear Regression) / Application of Multiple Regression in Response Surface Problems and Factorial Analyses / APPENDIXES / A: MORE ON PROBABILITY AND MODEL FITTING / B: TABLES / ANSWERS TO END-OF-SECTION EXERCISES / INDEX