Statistics

PETER W. M. JOHN California Research Corporation, Richmond, California and the University of California, Berkeley The analysis of balanced incomplete block experiments is discussed in most of the standard textbooks on experimental design. These discussions are usually confined to qualitative Read more

M. ZELEN*ANDMARYC.DANNEMILLER National Bureau of Standards Almost all the statistical procedures in current use for evaluating the reliability of components or equipment rest on the assumption that the failure times follow the exponential distribution. However, in practical situations one rarely Read more

GERALD J. LIEBERMAN Stanford University When a linear relationship has been fitted by least squares, the methods for securing a prediction interval for the response at some fixed value of the independent variable are explained in many statistical text books. This paper describes the somewhat more Read more

P.L. GOLDSMITH AND H. WHITFIELD Imperial College, London Average run-lengths are evaluated for V-mask quality control schemes based on cumulative deviation charts when the observations are Normally distributed and either independent or members of a certain serially correlated class. Read more

E. S. PAGE University of Durham Computing Laboratory, Newcastle upon Tyne, England This paper, presented orally to the Gordon Research Conference on Statistics in Chemistry in July 1960, traces the development of process inspection schemes from the original methods of Shewhart to the new charts Read more