Box on Quality and Discovery: With Design, Control and Robustness(Wiley series in probability & statistics: texts & references section)

A special, one-time volume, commemorating the 80th birthday of George E.P. Box, "the guru of statistics" in quality, whose work on the subject has had a major impact on industry, government, and academia.

Table of Contents:
Partial table of contents: IMPROVING ALMOST ANYTHING; Good Quality Costs Less?: How Come?; When Murphy Speaks-Listen; Changing Management Policy to Improve Quality and Productivity; Scientific Method: The Generation of Knowledge and Quality; DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS FOR QUALITY; Do Interactions Matter?; Teaching Engineers Experimental Design with a Paper Helicopter; What Can You Find Out from Eight Experimental Runs?; What Can You Find Out from Sixteen Experimental Runs?; What Can You Find Out from Twelve Experimental Runs?; Sequential Experimentation and Sequential Assembly of Designs; Must We Randomize Our Experiment?; The Importance of Practice in the Development of Statistics; SEQUENTIAL INVESTIGATION AND DISCOVERY; A Demonstration of Response Surface Methods; Response Surface Methods: Some History; Statistics as a Catalyst to Learning; Experience as a Guide to Theoretical Development; The Invention of the Composite Design; Finding the Active Factors in Fractionated Screening Experiments; Follow-up Designs to Resolve Confounding in Multifactor Experiments; Projective Properties of Certain Orthogonal Arrays; CONTROL; Six Sigma, Process Drift, Capability Indices, and Feedback Adjustment; Understanding Exponential Smoothing: A Simple Way to Forecast Sales and Inventory; Feedback Control by Manual Adjustment; Bounded Adjustment Charts; Statistical Process Monitoring and Feedback Adjustment-A Discussion; Cumulative Score Charts; VARIANCE REDUCTION AND ROBUSTNESS; Multiple Sources of Variation: Variance Components; The Importance of Data Transformation in Designed Experiments for Life Testing; Signal-to-Noise Ratios, Performance Criteria, and Transformations; SONGS; There's No Theorem Like Bayes Theorem; It's Distribution Free; I Am the Very Model of a Professor Statistical; References; Biography; Books and Articles Written by George Box from 1982 to 1999; Index.

About the Author :
GEORGE C. TIAO, PhD, is Professor of Statistics at the University of Chicago. SOREN BISGAARD, PhD, is Professor at the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland. WILLIAM J. HILL, PhD, is Fellow at Honeywell International Inc., Buffalo, New York. DANIEL PENA, PhD, is Professor of Statistics and Econometrics, University Carlos III, Madrid. STEPHEN M. STIGLER, PhD, is Professor of Statistics at the University of Chicago.

Review :
"...a sixth section gives the lyrics to three of Professor Box's famous statistician party songs..." (Technometrics, Vol. 42, No. 4, May 2001) "The organization is excellent and provides something for everyone..." (Journal of Quality Technology, Vol. 33, No. 3, July 2001) "...a nice reference for the bookshelf of a quality engineer or statistician...full of useful...information, techniques, and explanations...language is clear, yet elegant..." (Technometrics, Vol. 45, No. 1, February 2003)