This book presents the latest advances in the application of statistical and optimization methods within modern industry, alongside more established methods. The methods are demonstrated across a wide range of real-life applications from fields including finance, e-commerce, microelectronics, chemical and automotive engineering, component assembly, household goods, and plastics manufacturing. Chapters on management statistics and service quality are followed by material on data mining, processing modeling, and fundamental areas of statistics such as designing experiments, multivariate analysis, and simulation. A final chapter is devoted to communication of results. The book will be of use to anyone working in industry and employing statistical methods in their work. It can also serve as a supplementary text for students in engineering and statistics. The book was originally conceived as a handbook arising from the European Commission-funded Fifth Framework project, entitled European Network for Promotion of Business and Industrial Statistics. Coleman is affiliated with the Industrial Statistics Research Unit at Newcastle University, UK. Annotation ©2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
This book covers all the latest advances, as well as more established methods, in the application of statistical and optimisation methods within modern industry. These include applications from a range of industries that include micro-electronics, chemical, automotive, engineering, food, component assembly, household goods and plastics. Methods range from basic graphical approaches to generalised modelling, from designed experiments to process control. Solutions cover produce and process design, through manufacture to packaging and delivery, from single responses to multivariate problems.