| Overture: Engineering Method and Data Collection | p. 1 |
| Need for Statistical Methods in Engineering | p. 1 |
| Engineering Method and Statistical Thinking | p. 3 |
| Models | p. 7 |
| Obtaining Data | p. 9 |
| Sampling | p. 15 |
| Engineering Experiments | p. 19 |
| Enumerative Versus Analytic Studies | p. 24 |
| Purpose of Engineering Statistics | p. 25 |
| Case Study: Manufacture of Writing Instruments | p. 26 |
| Data Displays | p. 27 |
| Importance of Data Displays | p. 27 |
| Stem-and-Leaf Displays | p. 29 |
| Boxplots | p. 42 |
| Using Computer Software | p. 51 |
| Case Study | p. 61 |
| Need for Probability and Distributions | p. 64 |
| Ideas for Projects | p. 65 |
| Modeling Random Behavior | p. 67 |
| Probability | p. 67 |
| Random Variables and Distributions | p. 76 |
| Discrete Random Variables | p. 78 |
| Continuous Random Variables | p. 96 |
| The Normal Distribution | p. 106 |
| Random Behavior of Means | p. 112 |
| Random Behavior of Means when the Variance Is Unknown | p. 123 |
| The Random Behavior of Sample Variances | p. 131 |
| Normal Approximation to the Binomial | p. 132 |
| Case Study | p. 136 |
| Estimation and Testing | p. 140 |
| Estimation | p. 140 |
| Hypothesis Testing | p. 152 |
| Inference for a Single Mean | p. 169 |
| Inference for Proportions | p. 180 |
| Inference for Two Independent Samples | p. 186 |
| The Paired t-Test | p. 194 |
| Inference for a Single Variance | p. 202 |
| p-Values | p. 206 |
| Transformations and Nonparametric Analyses | p. 208 |
| Case Study | p. 209 |
| Ideas for Projects | p. 212 |
| Control Charts | p. 214 |
| Overview | p. 214 |
| X-and R-Charts | p. 229 |
| X-and s[superscript 2]-Charts | p. 243 |
| X-Chart | p. 251 |
| The np-Chart | p. 256 |
| The c-Chart | p. 262 |
| Average Run Lengths | p. 266 |
| Standard Control Charts with Runs Rules | p. 269 |
| CUSUM Charts | p. 272 |
| Case Study | p. 276 |
| Ideas for Projects | p. 280 |
| Linear Regression Analysis | p. 283 |
| Relationships Among Data | p. 283 |
| Simple Linear Regression | p. 285 |
| Multiple Linear Regression | p. 307 |
| Residual Analysis | p. 320 |
| Collinearity Diagnostics | p. 344 |
| Ideas for Projects | p. 351 |
| Designing Response Surface Experiments | p. 353 |
| Overview of Designed Experiments | p. 354 |
| The 2[superscript 2] Factorial Design | p. 359 |
| The 2[superscript k] Factorial Design | p. 370 |
| Half Fractions of the 2[superscript k] Factorial | p. 387 |
| Central Composite Designs | p. 405 |
| Multiple Responses | p. 419 |
| Experimental Designs for Quality Improvement | p. 428 |
| Ideas for Projects | p. 448 |
| Coda | p. 451 |
| The Themes of This Course | p. 451 |
| Integrating the Themes | p. 453 |
| Statistics and Engineering | p. 455 |
| Tables | p. 456 |
| Answers to Selected Exercises | p. 469 |
| Index | p. 475 |
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