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APPLIED STATISTICS
cod. 22370

Academic year 2007/08
1° year of course - First semester
Professor
Academic discipline
Statistica (SECS-S/01)
Field
Ambito aggregato per crediti di sede
Type of training activity
Hub-specific activity
24 hours
of face-to-face activities
3 credits
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Learning objectives

To address the basics of experimental design and related statistical techniques. To enable the learning of sampling procedures and their use in product and process control.

Prerequisites

'Mathematics and Statistics' is a preliminary course

Course unit content

<br />Experimental Design.<br />Scope and applications of experimental design. Use of ED in planning and running of trials and analysis of data. Factors, levels, treatments, blocks. Designing the test. Main effects and interactions. Fractional factorials; alias structure or confounding. Response surface methodologies; central composite design. Optimisation of industrial processes.<br /> Sampling.<br />Scope and applications of acceptance sampling in the food industry. Attributes and variables sampling and related procedures. Calculating the probability of acceptance of a lot. Operating characteristic curve. Acceptance-rejection criteria. Simple, double and multiple sampling. Use of tables; ISO and military standards. Implementing an acceptance sampling plan; determining the sample size. <br /> 

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Bibliography

G.E.P. Box, W.G. Hunter & J.S. Hunter. Statistics for Experimenters. John Wiley.<br />J.M. Juran & A.B. Godfrey. Juran's Quality Handbook. McGraw-Hill International.

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