Process Capability Analysis: Estimating Quality presents a systematic exploration of process capability analysis and how it may be used to estimate quality. The book is designed for practitioners who are tasked with insuring a high level of quality for the products and services offered by their organizations. Along with describing the necessary statistical theory, the book illustrates the practical application of the techniques to data that do not always satisfy the standard assumptions. The first two chapters deal with attribute data, where the estimation of quality is restricted to counts of nonconformities. Both classical and Bayesian methods are discussed. The rest of the book deals with variable data, including extensive discussions of both capability indices and statistical tolerance limits. Considerable emphasis is placed on methods for handling non-normal data. Also included are discussions of topics often omitted in discussions of process capability, including multivariate capability indices, multivariate tolerance limits, and capability control charts. A separate chapter deals with the problem of determining adequate sample sizes for estimating process capability.

Statgraphics Centurion 18 is a comprehensive Windows desktop product for statistical analysis, data visualization and predictive analytics. It contains over 260 procedures covering a wide range of data analysis techniques. Statgraphics 18 features an easy-to-use GUI that does not require learning a complicated command language. Especially helpful to practitioners is the StatAdvisor, which explains the results of statistical analyses in a manner suitable for presentation to non-statisticians.

• A new file format for handling big data. The 64-bit version can now analyze datasets containing in excess of 100 million rows.
• 9 new interactive Statlets for dynamic data visualization, including sunflower plots, population pyramids, wind roses, and violin plots.
• Improved demographic maps, with support for SHP files.
• Dialog-box driven procedures for accessing R libraries to use classification and regression trees, text mining, multidimensional scaling, analysis of arbitrarily censored data, and seasonal adjustment with X-13ARIMA-SEATS.
• Over a dozen other new statistical procedures, including equivalence analysis and noninferiority testing, orthogonal regression, capability control charts, multivariate tolerance intervals, tests for multivariate normality, and random number generation for multivariate normal distributions.
• New definitive screening designs in the DOE Wizard.
• A new network installation program which allows users to check out seats for use on individual computers.
• Extensive enhancements to the process capability analysis procedures to implement the methods described in the new book by Dr. Neil W. Polhemus, Process Capability Analysis: Estimating Quality to be published by Chapman and Hall/CRC Press in December, 2017.