The four most common sample survey designs, simple random sampling, stratified random sampling, systematic sampling and lcuster sampling, will be examined. The course will also deal with ratio and regression type estimators. This course should be of interest not only to Statistics majors but also to students of business, economics, sociology and other social sciences as well as environmental studies. The answer lies in the fact that Japan decided to use statistical quality control in the late 1940s and the 1950s while the rest of the world was watching them do so. Ironically, the person responsible for implementing statistical quality control into Japanese industry was Dr. W. Edwards Deming, a prominent American statistician.
Japan is a leader even today as a quality practitioner in the world.
Quality control techniques are currently used by almost every manufacturing enterprise to minimize internal waste and maintain a uniformly high quality product. This course will deal with modern statistical techniques used in various branches of industry to control and improve quality of production. Special attention will be given to the techniques most widely used in business and manufacturing industries. Applied Probability Probability is an area that has many and varied applications to the solution of real-world problems. Similarly, an insurance company may like to estimate on the number of accidents, say traffic accidents in the future in order to set the premium for a policy that the policyholder pays for in advance.