- Author
- Natrella, M. G.
- Coporate
- National Bureau of Standards, Gaithersburg, MD
- Report
- NBS Handbook 91
- Book or Conf
- Experimental Statistics. National Bureau of Standards Handbook 91, 540 p., 1963
- Keywords
- statistics | sensitivity | planning | experiments
- Identifiers
- some basic statistical concepts and preliminary considerations; characterizing the measured performance of a material, product, or process; comparing materials or products with respect to average performance; comparing materials or products with respect to variability of performance; characterizing linear relationships between two variables; polynomial and multivariable relationships analysis by the method of lease squares; characterizing the qualitative performance of a material, product, or process; comparing materials or products with respect to a two-fold classification of performance (comparing two percentages); comparing materials or products with respect to several categories of performance (chi-square tests); randomized blocks, latin squares, and other special-purpose designs; experiments to determine optimum conditions or levels; some shortcut tests for small samples from normal populations; some tests which are independent of the form of the distribution; the treatment of outliers; place of control charts in experimental work; statistical techniques for analyzing extreme-value data; use of transormations; relation between confidence intervals and tests of significance; expression of the uncertainties of final results