Statistics for Six Sigma Green Belts with Minitab and JMP

David M. Levine, Professor Emeritus of Statistics and Computer Information Systems at Bernard M. Baruch College (City University of New York), is nationally recognized as a leading innovator in business statistics education.   He is co-author of several best-selling statistics textbooks, including Statistics for Managers Using Microsoft Excel, Basic Business Statistics: Concepts and Applications, Business Statistics: A First Course, and Applied Statistics for Engineers and Scientists Using Microsoft Excel and Minitab. He also recently wrote Even You Can Learn Statistics and co-authored Six Sigma for Green Belts and Champions and Design for Six Sigma for Green Belts and Champions, all published by Prentice Hall.   Dr. Levine holds B.B.A. and M.B.A. degrees in Statistics from City College of New York and a Ph.D. degree from New York University in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research.

Acknowledgments  xvii

About the Author  xix

Preface  xxi

Chapter 1:  Fundamentals of Six Sigma  1

Chapter 2:  Introduction to Statistics  7

Chapter 3:  Presenting Data in Charts and Tables  23

Chapter 4:  Descriptive Statistics  39

Chapter 5:  Probability and Probability Distributions  59

Chapter 6:  Sampling Distributions and Confidence Intervals  95

Chapter 7:  Hypothesis Testing  113

Chapter 8:  Design of Experiments  157

Chapter 9:  Simple Linear Regression  211

Chapter 10:  Multiple Regression  241

Chapter 11:  Control Charts for Six Sigma Management  279

Appendix A:  Review of Arithmetic and Algebra  321

Appendix B:  Summation Notation  329

Appendix C:  Statistical Tables  333

Appendix D:  Documentation of Data Files  347

Glossary  349

Index  359