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    The ASQ Pocket Guide to Statistics for Six Sigma Black Belts
    The ASQ Pocket Guide to Statistics for Six Sigma Black Belts
    The ASQ Pocket Guide to Statistics for Six Sigma Black Belts
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    The ASQ Pocket Guide to Statistics for Six Sigma Black Belts

    By Matthew A. Barsalou

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    Six Sigma Black Belts are expected to have the skills of a good experimenter, possessing both a deep understanding of statistics and a knowledge of the industry in which they work. This book is written for the Six Sigma Black Belt who needs an understanding of many statistical methods but does not use all of these methods every day. It is intended to be used as a quick reference, providing basic details and formulas.

    The methods presented here are laid out according to the Six Sigma DMAIC (Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control) phases in which they are typically used. Included in appendices are a flowchart that provides the correct statistical test for a given use and type; flowcharts depicting the five steps for hypothesis testing; the statistical formulas in tables to serve as a quick reference; and statistical tables.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherASQ Quality Press
    Release dateNov 14, 2014
    ISBN9780873891394
    The ASQ Pocket Guide to Statistics for Six Sigma Black Belts
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    Matthew A. Barsalou

    Matthew A. Barsalou is employed by BorgWarner Turbo Systems Engineering GmbH, where he provides engineering teams with support and training in quality related tools and methods, including statistical analysis. His certifications include TÜV quality management representative, quality manager, quality auditor, and ISO/TS 16949 quality auditor, as well as ASQ certifications as quality technician, quality engineer, and Six Sigma Black Belt. He is certified as a Lean Six Sigma Mater Black Belt by Smarter Solutions, Inc. He is the editor of the ASQ Statistics Division s newsletter Statistics Digest and a frequent contributor to Quality Digest and the Minitab Blog, and has published in German, American, and British quality journals.

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      The ASQ Pocket Guide to Statistics for Six Sigma Black Belts - Matthew A. Barsalou

      Table of Contents

      Preface

      Introduction

      Chapter 1

      Define

      Chapter 2

      Measure

      Types of Data and Measurement Scales

      Samples and Populations

      Probability

      Binomial Distribution

      Bayes’ Theorem

      Descriptive Statistics

      Capability and Performance Studies

      Measurement System Analysis

      Chapter 3

      Analyze

      Hypothesis Testing

      Tests of Population Means

      Confidence Intervals for Means

      Chi-Square Test of Population Variance

      F-Test for the Variance of Two Samples

      Simple Linear Regression

      Test of Differences Between Means (ANOVA)

      Chapter 4

      Improve

      Design of Experiments

      Chapter 5

      Control

      Statistical Process Control

      Chapter 6

      Conclusion

      Appendix A

      Hypothesis Test Selection

      Appendix B

      Quick Reference for Formulas

      Appendix C

      Statistical Tables

      Appendix D

      Statistical Process Control Constants

      References

      The ASQ Pocket Guide to Statistics for Six Sigma Black Belts

      Matthew A. Barsalou

      ASQ Quality Press

      Milwaukee, Wisconsin

      American Society for Quality, Quality Press, Milwaukee 53203

      © 2015 by ASQ

      All rights reserved.

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Barsalou, Matthew A., 1975–

      The ASQ pocket guide to statistics for six sigma black belts / Matthew A. Barsalou.

      pages cm

      Includes bibliographical references and index.

      ISBN 978-0-87389-893-5 (alk. paper)

      1. Six sigma (Quality control standard) 2. Quality control—Statistical methods. I. American

      Society for Quality II. Title.

      TS156.17.S59B37 2015

      658.4′013—dc23

      2014037778

      No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher.

      Publisher: Lynelle Korte

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      Managing Editor: Paul Daniel O’Mara

      Production Administrator: Randall Benson

      ASQ Mission: The American Society for Quality advances individual, organizational, and community excellence worldwide through learning, quality improvement, and knowledge exchange.

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      Dedicated to my sisters, Lynne M. Barsalou and Misty A. D’Amours.

      Preface

      Just over half a decade before the arrival of Six Sigma, William J. Diamond (1981) wrote, The best experiment designs result from the combined efforts of a skilled experimenter, who has had basic training in experiment design methods, and of a skilled statistician, who has had training in engineering or science. The statistician alone cannot design good experiments in every possible discipline; neither can the scientist or engineer who is untrained in statistical experiment design be a good experiment designer. Today, Six Sigma Black Belts are expected to have the skills of a good experimenter, possessing both a deep understanding of statistics and a knowledge of the industry in which they work.

      This does not mean a Six Sigma Black Belt must know everything; the Six Sigma project team should include experts with the required detailed technical knowledge of the process being improved. A Six Sigma Black Belt can also consult with a Master Black Belt or a statistician for additional support with statistical methods.

      The ASQ Pocket Guide to Statistics for Six Sigma Black Belts is written for the Six Sigma Black Belt who needs an understanding of many statistical methods but does not use all of these methods every day. A Six Sigma Black Belt who has not had to use a specific statistical test in several years should be able to quickly find the required formula and a brief explanation of the statistical procedure.

      Acknowledgments

      This book would not have been possible without the support of many people. I would like to thank Lynetta Campbell (lkcampbell@aol.com) for keeping my statistics straight. I would also like to thank Jim Frost from Minitab for his assistance in providing clear conclusions for hypothesis tests, and Eston Martz and Michelle Paret from Minitab for providing me with a DOE data set. I am also grateful to Dean Christolear of CpkInfo.com for letting me use his Z-score table, and Rick Haynes of Smarter Solutions (www.smartersolutions.com) for providing me with the templates to create the other statistical tables.

      Introduction

      Six Sigma projects have five phases: Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, and Control. The statistical methods presented here are laid out according to the phase in which they are typically used. This book is intended to present the statistics of Six Sigma; however, it would be negligent to fail to mention the phases in which the methods are applied.

      Chapter 1 briefly covers the Define phase. Chapter 2 covers

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