Box on Quality and Discovery

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.