Six Sigma Statistics with EXCEL and MINITAB

Six Sigma Statistical with Excel and Minitab offers operations and production managers a complete guide to Six Sigma statistical techniques, together with expert coverage of Excel and Minitab, two of today's most popular programs for statistical analysis and data visualization.

Written by Issa Bass, a Six Sigma Master Black Belt with years of hands-on experience in industry, this on-target resource takes readers through the application of each Six Sigma statistical tool, while presenting a straightforward tutorial for effectively utilizing Excel and Minitab. With the help of this essential reference, managers can:

• Acquire the basic tools for data collection, organization, and description

• Learn the fundamental principles of probability

• Create and interpret dot plots, histograms, and box plots using Minitab

• Decide on sampling strategies, sample size, and confidence intervals

• Apply hypothesis tests to compare variance, means, and proportions

• Stay on top of production processes with statistical process control

• Use process capability analysis to ensure that processes meet customers' expectations

• Employ analysis of variance to make inferences about more than two population means

• Conduct a regression and residual analysis

• Design and analyze an experiment