The extent to which products meet specifications needs to be systematically monitored in a production process. Product quality will typically be defined by two quantities: deviations from stated ...

Control rules take advantage of the normal curve in which 68.26 percent of all data is within plus or minus one standard ...

Here is a quick overview for an understanding a standard deviation chart data set. You can see how the examples of the data will fall within one standard deviation of the mean for approximately 68% of ...

The previous example illustrates how you can create s charts using raw data (process measurements). However, in many applications, the data are provided as subgroup summary statistics. This example ...

The following data set (WIRE) contains breaking strength measurements recorded in pounds per inch for 25 samples from a metal wire manufacturing process. The subgroup sample sizes vary between 3 and 7 ...

Using Microsoft Excel you can create charts based on the data and formulas entered in a worksheet. Enter a sample range of numbers in Excel as if you were at an event asking people their ages, for ...

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There are two formulae for standard deviation. \(s = \sqrt {\frac{{\sum {{{(X - \bar X)}^2}} }}{{n - 1}}}\) (where n is the sample size). The second formula is a re ...