How to Conduct a Kappa Attribute Gage R&R

What is a Kappa Test? Hint – it is not a test given to a college fraternity (i.e. Kappa Pi). A Kappa Test is an awesome statistical...

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Short-Term Process Capability Studies

Short-term process capability studies are conducted to establish the performance entitlement of a process. This type of capability study...

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Our Normality: Tested and Explained

Almost all natural data on planet earth is normally distributed and most manufacturing process data is normally distributed too. What...

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The Power of a Normal Distribution

Build a Histogram

Before diving into the normal distribution curve, let’s start with the building block of it, the histogram. The...

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Lions and Tigers and Variation, oh My!

In the kids’ movie Madagascar: Escape to Africa, Marty is the zoo zebra suddenly finds himself in a giant herd of zebras and he...

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Finding Process Center in the Eye of the Data Storm

If you work in manufacturing, you probably see data every day. You may see it so often that you’ve become numb to it. For example,...

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Bringing the Power of Statistics into Focus

In 1907, Mark Twain associated statistics with lies. I’m here to debunk Mark Twain’s debunking of statistics. Statistics in...

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