Box on quality and discovery with design, control, and robustness

Partial table of contents: IMPROVING ALMOST ANYTHING Good Quality Costs Less?: How Come? When Murphy Speaks-Listen Changing Management Policy to Improve Quality and Productivity Scientific Method: The Generation of Knowledge and Quality DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS FOR QUALITY Do Interactions Matter? Teaching Engineers Experimental Design with a Paper Helicopter What Can You Find Out from Eight Experimental Runs? What Can You Find Out from Sixteen Experimental Runs? What Can You Find Out from Twelve Experimental Runs? Sequential Experimentation and Sequential Assembly of Designs Must We Randomize Our Experiment? The Importance of Practice in the Development of Statistics SEQUENTIAL INVESTIGATION AND DISCOVERY A Demonstration of Response Surface Methods Response Surface Methods: Some History Statistics as a Catalyst to Learning Experience as a Guide to Theoretical Development The Invention of the Composite Design Finding the Active Factors in Fractionated Screening Experiments Follow-up Designs to Resolve Confounding in Multifactor Experiments Projective Properties of Certain Orthogonal Arrays CONTROL Six Sigma, Process Drift, Capability Indices, and Feedback Adjustment Understanding Exponential Smoothing: A Simple Way to Forecast Sales and Inventory Feedback Control by Manual Adjustment Bounded Adjustment Charts Statistical Process Monitoring and Feedback Adjustment-A Discussion Cumulative Score Charts VARIANCE REDUCTION AND ROBUSTNESS Multiple Sources of Variation: Variance Components The Importance of Data Transformation in Designed Experiments for Life Testing Signal-to-Noise Ratios, Performance Criteria, and Transformations SONGS There's No Theorem Like Bayes Theorem It's Distribution Free I Am the Very Model of a Professor Statistical References Biography Books and Articles Written by George Box from 1982 to 1999 Index.