Synopses & Reviews
Accurate measurements in clinical and industrial testing are often not possible. Each measurement contains what can be regarded as containing an uncontrollable component of error. Their use to control quality therefore inevitable leads to right and wring conclusions. This book describes methods which can be used to control the frequency with which these occur. It describes recent developments which can be employed when very few control measurements can be taken due to limitations of cost or technical difficulty. It begins by describing simple statistical decision rules which were initially used to control the quality of industrial processes. These then form a basis on which to describe the concepts and practical consequences of the use of statistical quality control. It then illustrates improvements in the property of decision rules which can be achieved with appropriate choices of control rule parameters, test statistics and methods of control which selectively utilize information contained in the test data which is indicating that a change in quality level had occurred.
Review
"Accurate measurements in clinical and industrial testing are often not possible; when used to control quality, the measurements lead to some right and some wrong conclusions. Kemp (U. of Wales) discusses the inevitability of wrong decisions and control of the frequency with which they occur. He presents concepts of statistical theory and their application in simply designed control charts, along with the concepts of acceptable and rejectable levels, to form a simple model to establish principles and criteria for the design and operation of statistical control procedures. Written for clinical technicians and quality control engineers with a reasonable knowledge of mathematics."--SciTech Book News
"An accessible but very intelligent monograph on the statistics of quality control. Chapters 1 to 4 can nearly stand on their own as a first course in mathematical statistics."--Publication of the International Statistical Institute
Table of Contents
Introduction
Part I: Statiscal Concepts
1. Some aspects of stastical quality control
2. Small samples. Decisions and Consequences
3. Distributions relevant to process and test control
4. Effective use of sampled data
Part II: Principles and Criteria of Statistcal Quality Control
5. Principles and Criteria of Statistical Quality Control
6. Better Control Rules
Part III: COntrol using Cumulative sums
7. Really efficient use of test data
Appendix Tables
Bibliography
Index