Statistical Methods for Disease Clustering

(Chapter 5), the design of experiments (Chapters 6 and 7) and regression analysis (Chapter 8). Everybody who has ever browsed a ‘six sigma black belt’ training curriculum will agree that these topics are a need, at least in the field of quality improvement, and probably one of the more important application areas in engineering. Personally, I liked the blend of good exposition of mathematical concepts, motivating real world applications and anecdotes (‘. . . one of us (Hogg) took a quality fact-finding tour to more than 20 companies. . . ’, page 331), the latter showing the authors’ deep involvement in questions outside the pure academic world. The book has found its place in my hand library—and I have already recommended it to more than one of the colleagues from engineering initially quoted.