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| About the Authors | |
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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Quality Assurance | |
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| Quality in History | |
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| Quality in Egypt | |
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| Biblical View of Quality | |
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| Quality in Rome | |
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| War Fought over Quality | |
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| Franklin Expedition Lost Because of Poor Quality | |
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| Quality and the Industrial Revolution | |
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| The Effect of Culture on Quality | |
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| How to Change a Culture | |
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| Quality | |
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| What Is Quality? | |
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| Quality of design | |
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| Conformance to design | |
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| Performance | |
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| Control and quality assurance | |
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| Inspection, Audit, and Surveillance | |
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| Types of Nonconformance | |
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| Job Responsibilities | |
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| QA/QC manager | |
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| Quality engineer | |
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| Inspection | |
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| Receiving inspection | |
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| Source inspection | |
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| In-process inspection | |
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| Final (job shop) | |
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| Final (assembly line) | |
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| Chief inspector | |
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| Special Process | |
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| Metrology | |
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| Nondestructive testing | |
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| Welding | |
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| Traditional Manufacturing Organizations | |
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| Need for Quality in Today's Business Environment | |
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| Marketing | |
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| Profit | |
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| Liability | |
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| Engineering | |
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| Manufacturing | |
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| Marketing (sales) | |
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| Warranty | |
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| Manufacturing Methods | |
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| Assembly line method | |
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| Job shop method | |
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| Continuous manufacturing | |
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| Successful Quality Control Programs | |
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| Prevalent Quality Philosophies | |
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| W. Edwards Deming | |
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| Joseph M. Juran | |
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| Philip B. Crosby | |
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| Armand Feigenbaum | |
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| Quality Circles | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Methods Used to Control Quality | |
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| Quality Cost Concepts | |
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| Internal failure | |
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| External failure | |
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| Appraisal | |
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| Prevention | |
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| Pareto Analysis | |
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| Fishbone Analysis | |
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| Statistical Quality Control | |
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| Design of Experiments | |
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| Evolutionary Operations | |
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| Quality Circles | |
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| Self-Quality Control | |
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| Quality Audits | |
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| Just-in-Time Delivery | |
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| Computer Integrated Manufacturing | |
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| Quality Function Deployment | |
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| Process Improvement and Problem Solving | |
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| ISO-9000--What Is it and from Where Did It Come? | |
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| From Where Did It Come? | |
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| What Is ISO-9000? | |
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| How Is the Standard Structured? | |
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| What About the Twenty Elements? | |
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| Nondestructive Testing | |
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| Inspection Procedures, Codes, and Standards | |
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| Inspection, Audit, and Surveillance | |
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| Types of Inspection | |
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| Incoming inspection | |
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| Process inspection | |
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| Final inspection | |
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| Inspection Procedures | |
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| Clear definition of the test progression | |
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| Reference standards | |
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| Accept/reject criteria | |
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| Required test records | |
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| Nonconforming product path | |
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| Timely critique of test results | |
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| Inspector Training and Support | |
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| Management support | |
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| Inspector training | |
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| Inspector's Responsibility | |
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| 100 Percent Inspection | |
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| Inspection Codes and Standards | |
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| Magnetic Particle Testing (MT) | |
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| Magnetic Theory | |
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| Permeability | |
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| Retentivity | |
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| Residual magnetism | |
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| Producing a Magnetic Field | |
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| Test Techniques | |
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| Circumferential mangnetism | |
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| Longitudinal magnetism | |
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| Dye Penetrant Testing (DT) | |
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| Categories of Penetrants | |
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| Selection of Penetrant Type and Process | |
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| Sensitivity required | |
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| Number of articles to be tested | |
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| Surface conditions of the specimen | |
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| Configuration of the specimen | |
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| Availability of water, electricity, compressed air, and test area | |
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| Selection of Equipment and Materials | |
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| General Procedures for Dye Penetrant | |
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| Precleaning | |
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| Penetrant application | |
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| Dwell time | |
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| Excess penetrant removal | |
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| Developer application | |
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| Specimen inspection | |
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| Postcleaning | |
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| Eddy Current Testing | |
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| Advantages | |
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| Limitations | |
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| Principle of Operation | |
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| Types of Coils | |
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| Coil Arrangements | |
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| Single and double | |
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| Absolute and differential | |
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| Ultrasonic Inspection | |
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| Principles of Sound Transmission | |
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| Equipment | |
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| Transducer | |
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| Transmitter/receiver | |
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| Display | |
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| Screen Presentations | |
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| Testing Techniques | |
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| Contact method | |
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| Immersion method | |
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| Testing Process | |
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| Selecting the method | |
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| Calibrating the equipment | |
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| Testing the part | |
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| Radiation Safety (RS) | |
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| Physics of Radiation | |
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| Types of Radiation | |
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| What Is an Isotope? | |
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| Electromagnetic Radiation | |
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| Gamma rays | |
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| x-rays | |
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| Radiation Safety Regulations | |
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| Harmful Effects | |
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| Time, Shielding, and Distance | |
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| Dose Limits | |
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| Radiation Detection Devices | |
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| Radiographic Testing | |
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| Source of Electromagnetic Radiation | |
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| Selecting a Gamma Ray Source | |
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| Setting up the Camera | |
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| X-Ray Camera Construction | |
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| Indicating Media | |
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| Determining Radiograph Quality | |
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| Statistics and Probability | |
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| Distributions | |
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| Ungrouped Distribution | |
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| Ungrouped Frequency Distribution | |
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| Grouped Frequency Distribution | |
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| Plotting and Graphing | |
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| Histograms | |
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| Frequency Polygon | |
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| Ogive | |
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| Comparison | |
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| Normal Distributions | |
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| Central Tendency | |
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| Mean | |
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| Median | |
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| Mode | |
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| Overview | |
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| Dispersion | |
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| Range | |
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| Standard deviation and variance | |
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| Overview | |
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| Probability | |
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| Classical Approach | |
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| Relative Frequency Approach | |
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| Objective Approach | |
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| Rules of Addition | |
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| Rules of Multiplication | |
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| Combinations and Permutations | |
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| Probability Distributions | |
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| Normal Probability Distribution | |
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| Binomial Distribution | |
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| Poisson Distribution | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Appendices | |
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| Area Under the Normal Curve | |
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| Right Tail Area of the X[superscript 2] Distribution | |
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| Factors for Estimating [sigma] from R, s, or [sigma][subscript RMS] and [sigma][subscript R] from R | |
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| Factors for Determining from R the 3-sigma Control Limits for X and R Charts | |
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| Factors for Determining from s and [sigma][subscript RMS] the 3-sigma Control Limits for X and s or [sigma][subscript RMS] Charts | |
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| Factors for Determining from [sigma] the 3-sigma Control Limits for X, R, and s or [sigma][subscript RMS] Charts | |
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| Random Numbers | |
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| Binomial Probabilities | |
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| Summation of Terms of Poisson's Exponential Binomial Limit | |
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| Index | |