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Statistical thinking : improving business performance / Roger Hoerl and Ron Snee

By: Contributor(s): Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Book (Online)Language: English Series: Wiley & SAS business series | Wiley and SAS Business Ser ; v.54Publisher: Hoboken, New Jersey : John Wiley & Sons, Inc, (c)2012Copyright date: ©2012Edition: Second edition (Online-Ausg.)Description: Online-Ressource (1 online resource (xxix, 511 pages)) : illISBN:
  • 9781280591563
  • 1280591560
  • 9781118223383
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: 9781118094778 | 9781118223383 | 1280595914 | Erscheint auch als: Statistical thinking. Druck-Ausgabe Second edition. Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 2012. XXIX, 511 S.DDC classification:
  • 658.4033
  • 658.4/033 23
  • BUS061000
RVK: RVK: QP 880LOC classification:
  • HF1012
Online resources: Summary: How statistical thinking and methodology can help you make crucial business decisions Straightforward and insightful, Statistical Thinking: Improving Business Performance, Second Edition, prepares you for business leadership by developing your capacity to apply statistical thinking to improve business processes. Unique and compelling, this book shows you how to derive actionable conclusions from data analysis, solve real problems, and improve real processes. Here, you'll discover how to implement statistical thinking and methodology in your work to improve business performance. Explores why statistical thinking is necessary and helpful Provides case studies that illustrate how to integrate several statistical tools into the decision-making process Facilitates and encourages an experiential learning environment to enable you to apply material to actual problems With an in-depth discussion of JMP® software, the new edition of this important book focuses on skills to improve business processes, including collecting data appropriate for a specified purpose, recognizing limitations in existing data, and understanding the limitations of statistical analyses.Summary: Intro -- Statistical Thinking -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction to JMP -- Why JMP? -- JMP Menus -- Importing Data -- The JMP Data Table -- The Analyze Menu -- JMP Dialog Windows -- The Graph Menu -- The DOE Menu -- The Tools Menu -- Using JMP -- Part One Statistical Thinking Concepts -- Chapter 1 Need for Business Improvement -- Today's Business Realities and the Need to Improve -- We Now Have Two Jobs: A Model for Business Improvement -- New Management Approaches Require Statistical Thinking -- Principles of Statistical Thinking -- Applications of Statistical Thinking -- Summary -- Notes -- Chapter 2 Statistical Thinking Strategy -- Case Study: The Effect of Advertising on Sales -- The First Experiment -- The Second Experiment -- Refining the Research Hypothesis -- Research Outcomes -- Summary -- Case Study: Improvement of a Soccer Team's Performance -- Background -- Overall Approach -- Getting Started -- First Round of Data Collection -- Second and Third Sets of Defensive Data -- Offensive Skills -- Next Round on Offense -- Summary -- Statistical Thinking Strategy -- Commonality of Approach -- Statistical Thinking Strategy -- Context of Statistical Thinking: Statistics Discipline as a System -- Variation in Business Processes -- Synergy between Data and Subject Matter Knowledge -- Dynamic Nature of Business Processes -- Summary -- Project Update -- Notes -- Chapter 3 Understanding Business Processes -- Examples of Business Processes -- SIPOC Model for Processes -- Identifying Business Processes -- Analysis of Business Processes -- Non-Value-Added Work -- Process Complexity -- The Hidden Plant -- Process Measurements -- Benchmarking -- Systems of Processes -- Measurement Process -- Summary -- Project Update -- Notes -- Part Two Statistical Engineering: Frameworks and Basic Tools.PPN: PPN: 809671549Package identifier: Produktsigel: ZDB-26-MYL | ZDB-30-PAD | ZDB-30-PBE | ZDB-30-PQE
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