 | Summaries and Customer Reviews are supplied by Amazon.com | Master the Statistical Techniques for Six Sigma Operations, While Boosting Your Excel and Minitab Skills! Now with the help of this “one-stop” resource, operations and production managers can learn all the powerful statistical techniques for Six Sigma operations, while becoming proficient at Excel and Minitab at the same time. Six Sigma Statistics with Excel and Minitab offers a complete guide to Six Sigma statistical methods, plus expert coverage of Excel and Minitab, two of today's most popular programs for statistical analysis and data visualization. Written by a seasoned Six Sigma Master Black Belt, the book explains how to 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…conduct a regression and residual analysis…design and analyze an experiment…and much more. Filled with clear, concise accounts of the theory for each statistical method presented, Six Sigma Statistics with Excel and Minitab features: - Easy-to-follow explanations of powerful Six Sigma tools
- A wealth of exercises and case studies
- 200 graphical illustrations for Excel and Minitab
Essential for achieving Six Sigma goals in any organization, Six Sigma Statistics with Excel and Minitab is a unique, skills-building toolkit for mastering a wide range of vital statistical techniques, and for capitalizing on the potential of 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
In addition, Six Sigma Statistics with Excel and Minitab enables you to develop a better understanding of the Taguchi Method…use measurement system analysis to find out if measurement processes are accurate…discover how to test ordinal or nominal data with nonparametric statistics…and apply the full range of basic quality tools. Filled with step-by-step exercises, graphical illustrations, and screen shots for performing Six Sigma techniques on Excel and Minitab, the book also provides clear, concise explanations of the theory for each of the statistical tools presented. Authoritative and comprehensive, Six Sigma Statistics with Excel and Minitab is a valuable skills-building resource for mastering all the statistical techniques for Six Sigma operations, while harnessing the power of Excel and Minitab. |
Average Customer Rating:    It is a shame It is a shame such a book even exists. Almost useless. I guess a minitab menu is more helpful. Very limited and confusing statistics. A lot of errors (I mean errors, not only typos). A lot of screen shots which just waste paper.
One reviewer in this website gave this book five star. I don't know who he is and if he really read this book. He claimed that he bought and studied 37 bestseller statistic books, but did not find there are errors in the book. I mean errors that teach the wrong knowledge to the readers. All of these made me angry. Siz Sigma Statistics with Excel and Minitab This is a great book filled with the statistical technques, examples and associated solutions. It provides nice balance between the statistical theory and solutions using Excel and Minitab. The Minitab examples are easy to follow and implement in the Minitab tool (I did not use Excel.). The CD provided with the book is quite useful enabling one to use existing files rather than spending time typing data into the tool. In some instances it is not clear how to implement examples in Minitab; it would be helpful if the author described why certain Minitab options were selected instead of just pointing to the appropriate menu or dialog box.
In summary - this book provides a very helpful assistance in using Minitab for solving variety of statistical problems at a very reasonable price. Good for Minitab application but too many errors The author successfully achieved his purpose of explaining Six Sigma statistics using Minitab and Excel; however, I found numerous errors in his explanations of statistical methods and in his conclusions in some examples. I noticed 184 major and minor errors in this book, of which simple typo errors counted only 11. Mr. Bass failed to use Minitab's "Design of Experiment" feature in the chapter titled "Design of Experiment" and explained ANOVA instead, which could have been included in the chapter "Analysis of Variance." He also misapplied Taguchi's Loss Function in Chapter 12. Taguchi's Method usually means his Robust Design Method in DOE rather than his Loss Function.
It seems that Mr. Bass does not have formal training in statistics or mathematics. His understanding of factors, levels, and observations in ANOVA is questionable (p.207, p.211, p.218, p.276) and subscripting in his mathematics was a mess (pp.179-181, p.208, p.222, p.223, p.227). The direction of skewness in the normal distribution was wrong. These errors could have been avoided if Mr. Bass had asked his fellow statistician or mathematician to review his draft copy of this book. The responsibility also goes to the editor of McGraw Hill.
In conclusion, please read this book critically and learn how to use Minitab or Excel for Six Sigma analyses, keeping other statistics textbooks at hand. Great useful book As a BB I find this book really useful. Each chapter has a clear structure, that helps the reader to fully understand the topics.
Lot of examples and exercises make the reader capable to fully understand the theory and to apply it to real problems.
I suggest all the BBs to have this book. Six Sigma Statistics with Excel and Minitab by Issa Bass Excellent book on using Minitab and Excel to assist in Six Sigma analysis with supporting statistical methods |  |
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