Statistical Case Studies A Collaboration Between Academe and Industry Student Edition

Roxy Peck, Larry D. Haugh, Arnold Goodman9780898714210, 0898714214

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.

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Table of contents :
Statistical Case Studies: A Collaboration Between Academe and Industry, Student Edition……Page 2
ASA-SIAM Series on Statistics and Applied Probability……Page 3
ISBN 0-89871-421-4……Page 5
Contents……Page 8
Preface……Page 10
The Benefits of Cases……Page 18
Partnering for the Future of the Statistics Profession……Page 22
1 Are the Fish Safe to Eat? Assessing Mercury Levels in Fish in Maine Lakes……Page 34
2 Chemical Assay Validation……Page 40
3 Automating a Manual Telephone Process……Page 48
4 Dissolution Method Equivalence……Page 56
5 Comparison of Hospital Length of Stay Between Two Insurers for Patients with Pediatric Asthma……Page 62
6 Comparing Nonsteroidal Anti-inflammatory Drugs with Respect to Stomach Damage……Page 72
7 Validating an Assay of Viral Contamination……Page 76
8 Control Charts for Quality Characteristics Under Nonnormal Distributions……Page 82
9 Evaluation of Sound to Improve Customer Value……Page 92
10 Improving Integrated Circuit Manufacture Using a Designed Experiment……Page 102
11 Evaluating the Effects of Nonresponse and the Number of Response Levels on Survey Samples……Page 112
12 Designing an Experiment to Obtain a Target Value in the Chemical Processes Industry……Page 120
13 Investigating Flight Response of Pacific Brant to Helicopters at Izembek Lagoon, Alaska by Using Logistic Regression……Page 130
14 Estimating the Biomass of Forage Fishes in Alaska’s Prince William Sound Following the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill……Page 138
15 A Simplified Simulation of the Impact of Environmental Interference on Measurement Systems in an Electrical Components Testing Laboratory……Page 150
16 Cerebral Blood Flow Cycling: Anesthesia and Arterial Blood Pressure……Page 162
17 Modeling Circuit Board Yields……Page 176
18 Experimental Design for Process Settings in Aircraft Manufacturing……Page 184
19 An Evaluation of Process Capability for Fuel Injector Process Using Monte Carlo Simulation……Page 190
20 Data Fusion and Maintenance Policies for Continuous Production Processes……Page 200
Index……Page 212