Statistical Case Studies
A Collaboration Between Academe and Industry
Instructor Edition

Table of Contents

Preface
Introductions: The Benefits of Cases, Partnering for the Future of the Statistics Profession
Chapter 1: Are the Fish Safe to Eat? Assessing Mercury Levels in Fish in Maine Lakes
Chapter 2: Chemical Assay Validation
Chapter 3: Automating a Manual Telephone Process
Chapter 4: Dissolution Method Equivalence
Chapter 5: Comparison of Hospital Length of Stay Between Two Insurers for Patients with Pediatric Asthma
Chapter 6: Comparing Nonsteroidal Anti-inflammatory Drugs with Respect to Stomach Damage
Chapter 7: Validating an Assay of Viral Contamination
Chapter 8: Control Charts for Quality Characteristics Under Nonnormal Distributions
Chapter 9: Evaluation of Sound to Improve Customer Value
Chapter 10: Improving Integrated Circuit Manufacture Using a Designed Experiment
Chapter 11: Evaluating the Effects of Nonresponse and the Number of Response Levels on Survey Samples
Chapter 12: Designing an Experiment to Obtain a Target Value in the Chemical Processes Industry
Chapter 13: Investigating Flight Response of Pacific Brant to Helicopters at Izembek Lagoon, Alaska by Using Logistic Regression
Chapter 14: Estimating the Biomass of Forage Fishes in Alaska's Prince William Sound Following the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill
Chapter 15: A Simplified Simulation of the Impact of Environmental Interference on Measurement Systems in an Electrical Components Testing Laboratory
Chapter 16: Cerebral Blood Flow Cycling: Anesthesia and Arterial Blood Pressure
Chapter 17: Modeling Circuit Board Yields
Chapter 18: Experimental Design for Process Settings in Aircraft Manufacturing
Chapter 19: An Evaluation of Process Capability for Fuel Injector Process Using Monte Carlo Simulation
Chapter 20: Data Fusion and Maintenance Policies for Continuous Production Processes
Index.