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Sep 23, 2004 18:00

I'm not sure why introductory statistics courses don't begin by addressing foundational issues. Discovered a prospective gem of a stepstone by Jonathan Siegel (rev. 12/26/97), The Shewhart-Deming Critique of Classical Statistics.

Notes: W. Edwards Deming is the same, who traveled to traveled to Japan and revolutionized business practice there during the 1950s-60s through instruction about the management of quality. (*) Walter A. Shewhart of Bell Telephone Labs developed control charting in the 1920s; continuous monitoring of process variation forms an important aspect of statistical quality control (SQC). (*)
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