Competitive innovation and improvement : statistical design and control /: statistical design and control. (2014)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Kieron Dey.
• Authors: Dey, Kieron
• Contents: Simplicity of Statistical Design and Control; Making a Start; How Does It Work?; Care Management Case: Improving Health for Thousands of People; Discovery; Measurement Quality; Care Management Statistical Design; Baseline Data; Managing the Test; Test Results; Exploratory Analysis; What Might the Results Mean?; Findings Are Often Surprising; Significance of the Results; Implementation; Implementation Troubleshooting; ; Designed Innovation; Innovation Uses More Right Brain than Left; Retailing Case: New Product Sales; Discovery; Measurement Quality; Preparing for the Test; Retail Furniture Statistical Design and Its Management; Exploratory Analysis and Inference; What Might the Results Mean?; Statistical Significance; Ironing Out Some Possible Wrinkles; Predicting and Delivering the Improvement; Retailing Designed Innovation Case: Conclusion; ; Statistical Control ; Using Statistical Control; Economic Advantage; Derivation; Practical Use of Statistical Control; Digression into Causality; Concluding Scientific Work in the Care Management Case; False Alarm Rate Is Neither Known Nor Useful in Statistical Control; Statistical Control Terminology; Statistics Breaks Down in Unstable Processes; Economic Loss without Statistical Control; Cost Explosion Story Unexploded; Tests for Statistical Control; Statistical Control Integrated with Statistical Design; Managing Statistical Control Schemes; Mechanics of Statistical Control; Where Did Statistical Control Originate?; ; Measurement Error and Control; All Measurement Systems Are Inherently Flawed; Clinical Care Case: Initial Measurement Study and Long-Term Controls; Establishing a Measurement Control Scheme; ; Statistical Design; Advantages of Large Statistical Design; Two-Level Designs; Full Factorial Designs; Fractional Factorial Designs; Backpacking Case; Discovery; Managing the Test; Measurement Quality; Exploratory Analysis; What Might the Initial Results Mean?; Exploring Interactions; Simpler Analysis; Statistical Significance; Solving the Puzzle; Aliasing; Analysis of All Pair Interactions; Measurement Problem Found and Fixed after the Test; Using Sales Change as the Test’s Measurement; Calculating Precision and Sample Size Before the Test; Diagnosing Unusually High or Low Results in a Statistical Design Row; Guidance on Fractional Factorial Designs; Multifactorial Designs; Care Management Case: More Analytical Insight; Randomization; Milk Story; Soil Story; Geometric versus Nongeometric Designs; Aliasing Scheme for the Care Management Design; Augmenting Multifactorials to Also Estimate Pair Interactions; Testing Strategy; Uniqueness and Stumbling Around; Where Did Statistical Design Originate?; ; Statistical Design and Control: A Dozen Large-Scale Case Studies ; Selection of Cases; ; Simultaneous Design ; Solving Complex Problems Simply; Simultaneous Design Idea; Science Education Case; Discovery; Baseline Data; Simultaneous Statistical Designs for Science Classes; Pair Interactions across Designs and an Easier Analysis; Findings; Rules for Simultaneous Designs; General Multichannel Optimization Case; Simultaneous Design Procedure; ; Scientific Method, Randomization, and Improvement Strategies ; Simplicity of the Scientific Method; Scientific Method with Statistical Design and Control; Randomization Distribution; Randomization Device; Proof Isn’t in the Pudding; What Science Lies beneath Implementation Being the Hardest Part?; Common Improvement Strategies; Randomized Control Trials (RCT); Statistical Design and Control Are for Real Problems with Everyone Contributing; ; Managing Improvement and Innovation ; Organization; Speed without Net Resources; How to Manage Specific Improvements/Innovations; Statistical Design and Control Summary; ; Appendix: Answers to Exercises; References; Index
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: New York : Productivity Press
• Publication Date: 2014
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 001.434; Experimental design; Experimental design -- Case studies; Problem solving -- Statistical methods; Problem solving -- Statistical methods -- Case studies
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781482233445
• Related ISBNs: 9781482233438
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