Roger W. Hoerl - Statistical Thinking : Improving Business Performance

1. Chapter 2
2. Chapter 3
3. Chapter 4
4. Chapter 5
5. Chapter 6
6. Chapter 7
7. Chapter 8
8. Chapter 9
9. Chapter 10
10. Appendix D
11. Appendix E
12. Appendix F
13. Appendix G
14. Appendix H
15. Appendix I
16. Appendix J

1. Introduction
2. Chapter 1
3. Chapter 2
4. Chapter 3
5. Chapter 4
6. Chapter 5
7. Chapter 6
8. Chapter 7
9. Chapter 8
10. Chapter 9
11. Chapter 10
12. Appendix D
13. Appendix E
14. Appendix H

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Statistical Thinking

Improving Business Performance

Third Edition

Roger W. Hoerl and Ronald D. Snee

Copyright 2020 by Roger W. Hoerl and Ronald D. Snee. All rights reserved.

Published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey.

Edition History
Duxbury Press (1e, 2002); John Wiley and Sons, Inc. (2e, 2012).

Published simultaneously in Canada.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Hoerl, Roger Wesley, 1957- author. | Snee, Ronald D., author.

Title: Statistical thinking : improving business performance / Roger W. Hoerl, Ronald D. Snee.

Description: Third edition. | Hoboken, New Jersey : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., [2020] | Series: Wiley SAS business series | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2020013168 (print) | LCCN 2020013169 (ebook) | ISBN 9781119605713 (hardback) | ISBN 9781119605720 (adobe pdf) | ISBN 9781119605737 (epub)

Subjects: LCSH: Commercial statistics.