Six Sigma Statistics with Excel and Minitab, Second Edition

Issa Bass (Memphis, TN), a Six Sigma Master Black Belt and an experienced research consultant, was the founder of SixSigmaFirst.com, a web site devoted to answering the most frequently asked questions surrounding Six Sigma statistics. He is the co-author of Lean Six Sigma Using SigmaXL and Minitab.

Ch 1 IntroductionIntroduction to Statistics * What is Six Sigma *Six Sigma, a Statistical Definition * Statistics, Six Sigma and Quality controlCh 2 Intro to Minitab and ExcelNavigating in Minitab * Excel for Statistical Analysis * Charts and Graphs * Excel Applications * Minitab Applications *ExamplesCh 3 Descriptive StatisticsMeasures of Central Tendency * Measures of Dispersion * Range *Mean Deviation * Variance * Standard Deviation * Ch 4 Introduction to ProbabilityDiscrete and continuous distributions * Discrete Distributions * Continuous DistributionsCh 5 Sampling DistributionCentral Limit Theorem* Sampling Distribution for the Mean * Sampling Distribution for Proportions * Estimating Populations with Large Sample sizes * Estimating Populations with small sample sizes and sigma unknown * Estimating Sample sizes * Minitab and Excel exercisesCh 6 Hypothesis Testing How to conduct a Hypothesis Test *Testing for a population mean * Testing for proportions * Statistical Inference about two PopulationsCh 7 Statistical Process Control How to build a control Chart * The WECO Rules * Control Charts in Minitab * Types of Control ChartsCh 8 Process Capability AnalysisDefinition of Process Capability Analysis * Process Capability with Normal Data * Process Capability in Minitab Ch 9 Analysis Of VarianceCompletely Randomized Experimental Design One Way ANOVA * The Randomized Block Design Two Way ANOVA* Analysis of Mean ANOMCh 10 Regression AnalysisSimple Linear Regression and Correlation Analysis * Multiple Regression AnalysisCh 11 Design of ExperimentFactorial Design with Two Factors * Factorial Design with More than Two Factors * Fractional Factorial DesignsCh 12 Taguchi MethodTaguchi’s Loss Function * Taguchi’s DesignCh 13 Measurement System AnalysisMSA Overview * Variations due to Precision * Variations due to AccuracyCh 14 Nonparametric Statistics Chi Square test * Run Test * Friedman Test * Mann Whitney test * Krustal-Wallis TestCh 15 Basic Quality ToolsPareto Analysis * Cause and Effect Diagram