Applied Statistics and Probability for Engineers

686 APPENDIX C ANSWERS TO SELECTED EXERCISES (b) (272.44, 308.44) (c) (257.25, 323.64) 12-31.(a)0.595  2 0.535, 0.229  3  ...

APPENDIX C 687 (d) (69.17, 81.81) (e) (8.42, 26.33) 13-19. 5 Section 13-3 13-21.(a) RejectH 0 (b) 0.01412 (c) 0.0148 13-23.(a) D ...

688 APPENDIX C ANSWERS TO SELECTED EXERCISES 15-31.z 0 2.78, do not reject H 0 , P-value0.9973 15-33.w 55  78, reject H 0 1 ...

689 Glossary Acceptance region.In hypothesis testing, a region in the sample space of the test statistic such that if the test s ...

690 GLOSSARY Bayes’ theorem.An equation for a conditional proba- bility such as in terms of the reverse conditional probability. ...

GLOSSARY 691 Conditional mean.The mean of the conditional prob- ability distribution of a random variable. Conditional probabili ...

Correlation.In the most general usage, a measure of the interdependence among data. The concept may include more than two variab ...

GLOSSARY 693 Dispersion.The amount of variability exhibited by data. Distribution free methods(s).Any method of infer- ence (hyp ...

694 GLOSSARY Frequency distribution.An arrangement of the fre- quencies of observations in a sample or population according to t ...

GLOSSARY 695 Joint probability density function.A function used to calculate probabilities for two or more continuous random var ...

696 GLOSSARY Maximum likelihood estimation.A method of param- eter estimation that maximizes the likelihood function of a sample ...

GLOSSARY 697 y (usually on the ordinate) is scaled so that the graph of the normal cumulative distribution is a straight line. N ...

698 GLOSSARY one or more parameters. Combining the samples for this purpose is usually called pooling. Population standard devia ...

GLOSSARY 699 Random factor.In analysis of variance, a factor whose levels are chosen at random from some population of factor le ...

700 GLOSSARY surface with a model and using the resulting model to optimize the system or process. Response surface designs.Expe ...

GLOSSARY 701 Statistical Process Control.A set of problem-solving tools based on data that are used to improve a process. Statis ...

contains all or most of the useful information about the response in the data. Variables control chart.Any control chart for a c ...

A Acceptance region, 280, 290 Actual process capability versus potential process capability, 622 Addition of center points to 2k ...

704 INDEX Continuous uniform random variable, 107 Contour plot, 411 Contrasts, 13-2, 525, 526, 532 Control chart, 10, 598, 599, ...

INDEX 705 L Lack of memory property of exponential random variable, 125, 126, 140 Lack of memory property of geometric random va ...