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Title: The Application Of Taguchi Design In The Calibration Laboratory
Author: Steven F. Cook
Source: 1993 Measurement Science Conference
Year Published: 1993
Abstract: During a graduate statistics class while students were bemoaning our collective ability to forget what had been learned during undergraduate studies, the instructor stated the first statistics class a person takes is a sacrifice to the gods, you really arent expected to retain much from it. Since that time the importance of statistics in measurement is something, as well as the study of statistics itself, that I have spent a great deal of time trying to understand. As the science of collecting, tabulating and analyzing data statistics has been relegated to the lofty role of the language of the professors, and used mainly in the application of the scientific method in research, yet the application of statistics to other sciences has made dramatic advances (Quantum Mechanics, Quantum Optics) and the application of statistical methods is well within the ability of anyone willing to spend the time to learn them. It is not by chance that many of the tools tied to the Japanese quality successes are based on the application of statistics, nor the fact that statistics is a required class at the high school level in Japanese Schools. The value of statistical analysis is based on the existence of random variation in all measurements or observations. The idea in utilizing statistics in measurement is to filter out the noise of random variation sufficiently to obtain information otherwise obscured. Another important benefit is the ability to characterize a source containing random variation utilizing a Probability Distribution.

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