Statistical Case Studies – A Collaboration Between Academe and Industry, Teacher Edition
A Collaboration Between Academe and Industry

This book contains 20 case studies that use actual data sets that have not been simplified for classroom use.

Roxy Peck (Edited by), Roxy Peck (Author), Larry D. Haugh (Edited by), Larry D. Haugh (Author), Arnold Goodman (Edited by), Arnold Goodman (Author)

9780898714135

Paperback / softback, published 31 August 1998

212 pages
25.5 x 18.3 x 1.5 cm, 0.582 kg

Statisticians know that the clean data sets that appear in textbook problems have little to do with real-life industry data. To better prepare their students for all types of statistical careers, academic statisticians now strive to use data sets from real-life statistical problems. This book contains 20 case studies that use actual data sets that have not been simplified for classroom use. Each case study is a collaboration between statisticians from academe and from business, industry, or government. This book is the result of a collaborative workshop of statisticians focusing on academic-industrial partnerships. The cases come from a wide variety of application areas, including biology/environment, medical and health care, pharmaceutical, marketing and survey research, and manufacturing.

Preface
Introductions: The Benefits of Cases, Partnering for the Future of the Statistics Profession
Chapter 1: Are the Fish Safe to Eat? Assessing Mercury Levels in Fish in Maine Lakes
Chapter 2: Chemical Assay Validation
Chapter 3: Automating a Manual Telephone Process
Chapter 4: Dissolution Method Equivalence
Chapter 5: Comparison of Hospital Length of Stay Between Two Insurers for Patients with Pediatric Asthma
Chapter 6: Comparing Nonsteroidal Anti-inflammatory Drugs with Respect to Stomach Damage
Chapter 7: Validating an Assay of Viral Contamination
Chapter 8: Control Charts for Quality Characteristics Under Nonnormal Distributions
Chapter 9: Evaluation of Sound to Improve Customer Value
Chapter 10: Improving Integrated Circuit Manufacture Using a Designed Experiment
Chapter 11: Evaluating the Effects of Nonresponse and the Number of Response Levels on Survey Samples
Chapter 12: Designing an Experiment to Obtain a Target Value in the Chemical Processes Industry
Chapter 13: Investigating Flight Response of Pacific Brant to Helicopters at Izembek Lagoon, Alaska by Using Logistic Regression
Chapter 14: Estimating the Biomass of Forage Fishes in Alaska's Prince William Sound Following the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill
Chapter 15: A Simplified Simulation of the Impact of Environmental Interference on Measurement Systems in an Electrical Components Testing Laboratory
Chapter 16: Cerebral Blood Flow Cycling: Anesthesia and Arterial Blood Pressure
Chapter 17: Modeling Circuit Board Yields
Chapter 18: Experimental Design for Process Settings in Aircraft Manufacturing
Chapter 19: An Evaluation of Process Capability for Fuel Injector Process Using Monte Carlo Simulation
Chapter 20: Data Fusion and Maintenance Policies for Continuous Production Processes
Index.

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