Table of Contents

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