Technical reports

1. Studies in Quality Improvement: Dispersion Effects from Fractional Designs
by George Box and R. Daniel Meyer. (February 1986).
The expense of repeating measurements can sometimes be avoided by using unreplicated fractional factorials to identify factors that affect dispersion Publication(s): Technometrics, 1986, Vol. 28, No. 1, pp. 19-27

2. An Analysis for Unreplicated Fractional Factorials
by George Box and R. Daniel Meyer. (February 1986).
New procedures for analyzing unreplicated fractional factorial designs make them easier to use. Publication(s): Technometrics, 1986, Vol. 28, No. 1, pp. 11-18.

3. Analysis of Unreplicated Factorials Allowing for Possibly Faulty Observations
by George Box and R. Daniel Meyer. (February 1986).
Inaccurate data points are particularly troublesome in the analysis of unreplicated factorial experiments, but new techniques allow investigators to overcome this difficulty. Publication(s): Design, Data, and Analysis, Colin Mallows (ed.), Wiley, (1987), pp. 1-12.4.

4. Managing Our Way to Economic Success: Two Untapped Resources
by William G. Hunter. (February 1986).
American organizations could compete much better at home and abroad if they would learn to tap the potential information inherent in all processes and the creativity inherent in all employees.

5. My First Trip to Japan
by Peter R. Scholtes. (February 1986).
American visitors to Japan can learn much about what it takes to successfully implement quality improvement.

6. Total Quality Leadership vs. Management
by Control by Brian L. Joiner and Peter R. Scholtes. (February 1988).
To survive in increasingly tough markets, top management in American companies will have to forsake their desire to "control" their employees, and instead learn what it means to provide Total Quality Leadership.

7. Studies in Quality Improvement: Designing Environmental Regulations
by Soren Bisgaard and William G. Hunter. (February 1986).
There is a surprising similarity between what SPC provides for industries and the need for constructing sensitive, reliable standards for environmental regulations. Publication(s): US EPA-230-03-047 publication, Paul I. Feder (ed.), Washington, DC, (1987), pp. 41-53.

8. Studies in Quality Improvement: Minimizing Transmitted Variation
by Parameter Design by George Box and Conrad A. Fung. (February 1986).
By properly designing products and taking the inevitable variation in components into account, engineers can minimize the amount of variation that ultimately shows up in finished products.

9. A Useful Method for Model-Building II: Synthesizing Response Functions from Individual Components
by William G. Hunter and Andrzej P. Jaworski. (February 1986).
Analyzing which components of a response are due to each factor is an alternative way to find the best model for studying the properties of a product or process (and thus for improving both). Publication(s): Technometrics, 1986, Vol. 28, No. 4, November (1986), pp. 321-327.

10. The Next 25 Years in Statistics
by William J. Hill and William G. Hunter (With contributions by Joseph W. Duncan, A. Blanton Godfrey, Brian L. Joiner, Gary C. McDonald, Charles G. Pfeifer, Donald W. Marquardt, and Ronald D. Snee). (February 1986).
A transformation of the American style of management has already begun; in order for it to succeed, statisticians must assume a leadership role. Publication(s): Chance, 1990, No. 1, pp. 38-39.

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