Industrial Statistics: Aims and Computational Aspects. Proceedings of the Satellite Conference to the 51st Session of the International Statistical Institute (ISI), Athens, Greece, August 16–17, 1997

Front Matter....Pages I-XVII
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Quality Engineering Using Robust Design and Analysis....Pages 3-15
The Calibration Problem in Industry....Pages 17-25
Case Study of Applying Statistical Techniques for the Quality Assurance in a Paint Industry....Pages 27-49
Taking Multivariate Statistics out into Industry — Multivariate Statistical Progress Control and Process Performance Monitoring....Pages 51-64
Robust Estimation of Variance Components with High Breakdown Point in the 1-Way Random Effect Model....Pages 65-73
Sources of Inaccuracy in the Mean and Variance Models for Quality Improvement Problems....Pages 75-86
Front Matter....Pages 87-87
Accelerated Life Test with Some Parameter Change in Life-Stress Relation....Pages 89-97
Accurate Inferences for the Reliability Function Considering Accelerated Life Tests....Pages 99-109
Prediction of Failures that Have Never Occured: Exponential Case....Pages 111-122
Algorithm of Confidence Limits Calculation for the Probability of the Value 1 of a Monotone Boolean Function of Random Variables....Pages 123-133
Developing a Graphical Interface for Pre-Posterior Bayesian Analysis....Pages 135-147
Front Matter....Pages 149-149
Nonlinear-Optimal-Sequential Experiment Designs and Applications....Pages 151-163
Robust Inference and Experimental Design for Multi-Factor Models....Pages 165-174
Construction of Some New Orthogonal Main-Effect Designs....Pages 175-181
Extended V —robustness for Two-level Orthogonal Resolution V Designs....Pages 183-191
Computational Algebraic Geometry in Industrial Experimental Design....Pages 193-198
Front Matter....Pages 199-199
New Statistical Methods for Analyzing Mutagenicity Assays: Real Data Problems in Biopharmaceutical Drug Development....Pages 201-208
Application of Statistical Selection Procedures in Biotechnology....Pages 209-220
Modeling and Computation in Pharmaceutical Statistics when Analysing Drug Safety....Pages 221-232
Isotonic Inference with Particular Interest in Application to Clinical Trials....Pages 233-241
Front Matter....Pages 199-199
Tests for Linearity and Tests for Zero Slope in Crossover Studies....Pages 243-256
Front Matter....Pages 257-257
A Nonparametric Combination Method for Dependent Permutation Tests with Application to Some Problems with Repeated Measures....Pages 259-268
Adaptive Tests for Trend....Pages 269-273
Front Matter....Pages 275-275
Convergence Rates of Simulated Annealing-Type of Recursive Algorithms....Pages 277-283
Spatial Statistics in the Material Research....Pages 285-293
Exact Solutions to the Problem of Predicting a vast Class of Weakly Stationary, Linearly Singular, Discrete-Parameter Stochastic Processes....Pages 295-302