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They realized that the gains that you get by
statistical
methods are gains that you get without new machinery, without new people. Anybody can produce quality if he lowers his production rate. That is not what I am talking about.
Statistical
thinking and
statistical
methods are to Japanese production workers, foremen, and all the way through the company, a second language. In
statistical
control you have a reproducible product hour after hour, day after day. And see how comforting that is to management, they now know what they can produce, they know what their costs are going to be.
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Pencil and paper for construction of distributions, scatter diagrams, and run-charts to compare small groups and to detect trends are more efficient methods of estimation than
statistical
inference that depends on variances and standard errors, as the simple techniques preserve the information in the original data.
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You need not be a mathematical statistician to do good
statistical
work, but you will need the guidance of a first class mathematical statistician.
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Your study of
statistical
methods will not displace any other knowledge that you have; rather, it will extend your knowledge of engineering, chemistry, or economics, and make it more useful.
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A good engineer, or a good economist, or a good chemist, already has a good start, because the
statistical
method is only good science brought up to date by the recognition that all laws are subject to the variations which occur in nature.
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Sampling is the science and art of controlling and measuring the reliability of useful
statistical
information through the theory of probability.
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Statistical
research is particularly necessary in the government service because of the high level of quality and economy that the public has the right to expect in government statistics.
W. Edwards Deming
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There are periods in history when change is necessary, and other periods when it is better to keep everything for the time as it is. The art of life is to be in the rhythm of your age.
Oswald Mosley
W. Edwards Deming
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Born:
October 14, 1900
Died:
December 20, 1993
(aged 93)
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