Sampling Inspection Tables Regression Analysis of Production Costs and Factory Operations

Abstract

FOR about twenty years, statistical methods have been finding their way into the control of industrial processes. In the 1920's only slow progress was made against a great deal of doubt and opposition from manufacturers themselves. About 1932 the tide began to flow more strongly and increased in force as the modern methods were found to provide not merely a new way of formulating old knowledge but also a technique involving substantial saving in labour and money. The War itself has probably done more in six years than peace would have done in sixty to promote the widespread adoption of the new methods. In 1935 a few enthusiasts in Great Britain were still trying to persuade manufacturers of the power of the new tools at their disposal; in 1945 there is a division of the Ministry of Supply encouraging research in these tools and acting as the centre of an extensive network of quality control.

Sampling Inspection Tables

Single and Double Sampling. By Harold F. Dodge and Harry G. Romig. Pp. vi + 106. (New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc.; London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1944.) 1.50 dollars.

Regression Analysis of Production Costs and Factory Operations

By Philip Lyle. Pp. xii + 208. (Edinburgh and London: Oliver and Boyd, 1944.) 15s. net.