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Tampering with a Stable Process
Author(s) -
Krehbiel Timothy C.
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
teaching statistics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.425
H-Index - 13
eISSN - 1467-9639
pISSN - 0141-982X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9639.1994.tb00696.x
Subject(s) - funnel , process (computing) , variation (astronomy) , computer science , econometrics , mathematics education , statistics , mathematics , engineering , mechanical engineering , programming language , physics , astrophysics
Summary This article presents a variation of the funnel experiment made famous by W. Edwards Deming. Ideally suited for classroom use, this exercise illustrates the disastrous consequences resulting from tampering with a stable process.