Statistical Case Studies Student Edition

Preface; Introductions: The Benefits of Cases, Partnering for the Future of the Statistics Profession; 1. Are the Fish Safe to Eat? Assessing Mercury Levels in Fish in Maine Lakes; 2. Chemical Assay Validation; 3. Automating a Manual Telephone Process; 4. Dissolution Method Equivalence; 5. Comparison of Hospital Length of Stay Between Two Insurers for Patients with Pediatric Asthma; 6. Comparing Nonsteroidal Anti-inflammatory Drugs with Respect to Stomach Damage; 7. Validating an Assay of Viral Contamination; 8. Control Charts for Quality Characteristics Under Nonnormal Distributions; 9. Evaluation of Sound to Improve Customer Value; 10. Improving Integrated Circuit Manufacture Using a Designed Experiment; 11. Evaluating the Effects of Nonresponse and the Number of Response Levels on Survey Samples; 12. Designing an Experiment to Obtain a Target Value in the Chemical Processes Industry; 13. Investigating Flight Response of Pacific Brant to Helicopters at Izembek Lagoon, Alaska by Using Logistic Regression; 14. Estimating the Biomass of Forage Fishes in Alaska's Prince William Sound Following the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill; 15. A Simplified Simulation of the Impact of Environmental Interference on Measurement Systems in an Electrical Components Testing Laboratory; 16. Cerebral Blood Flow Cycling: Anesthesia and Arterial Blood Pressure; 17. Modeling Circuit Board Yields; 18. Experimental Design for Process Settings in Aircraft Manufacturing; 19. An Evaluation of Process Capability for Fuel Injector Process Using Monte Carlo Simulation; 20. Data Fusion and Maintenance Policies for Continuous Production Processes; Index.