Methods and Applications of Statistics in Engineering, Quality Control, and the Physical Sciences

Contributors.

1. Accelerated Life Testing.

2. Advances in Robust Parameter Design: From Taguchi’s Inner Outer Arrays to Combined Arrays.

3. Applicability of Statistics and Probability Theory to Nucleate Pool Boiling Heat Transfer.

4. Application of Statistics in International Standardization.

5. Capability.

6. Change-Point Analysis.

7. Chaos.

8. Chemometrics.

9. Coherent Structure Theory.

10. Control Charts.

11. Cumulative Sum Control Charts.

12. Degradation Models and Analyses.

13. Detection in Communications and Radar.

14. Directional Statistics, I.

15. Directional Statistics, II.

16. Engineering Statistics.

17. Fractal Dimensions and Estimation.

18. Fractals.

19. Hausdorff Dimension.

20. Information Theory and Coding Theory.

21. Life Testing.

22. Load-Sharing Systems.

23. Multivariate Calibration.

24. Multivariate Quality Control.

25. Nonparametric Methods in Reliability.

26. Nonparametric (Distribution-Free) Quality Control Charts.

27. Optimal Sample Size Allocation for Accelerated Degradation Test Based on Wiener Process.

28. Optimal Stochastic Control.

29. Percolation Theory.

30. Power Law Process.

31. Precedence Testing.

32. Principles of Professional Statistical Practice.

33. Probabilistic Reliability.

34. Quality Concept for Official Statistics.

35. Quality Measurement Plan (QMP).

36. Quantum Mechanics and Probability: An Overview.

37. Quantum Mechanics: Statistical Interpretation.

38. Rainfall, Landforms, and Streamflow.

39. Repairable Systems in Reliability.

40. Sampling Plans.

41. Software Reliability.

42. Statistical Communication Theory.

43. Statistical Methods in Chemistry.

44. Statistical Models for Damage Accumulation.

45. Statistical Quality Control.

46. Statistical Signal Processing.

47. Statistical Software.

48. Statistics in Astronomy.

49. Statistics in Computer Vision.

50. Statistics in Crystallography.

51. Statistics in Industry.

52. Statistics in Meteorology.

53. Statistics in Physics (Early History).

54. Statistics of Earthquakes.

55. Step-Stress.

56. Step-Stress Testing with Multiple Samples: The Exponential Case.

57. Stochastic Mechanics.

58. System Reliability.

59. Taguchi Method for Offline Quality Control.

60. Tolerance Intervals and Tolerance Regions.

61. Wavelets.

Index.