Laura Lancaster is a statistical applications developer in the JMP Division of SAS Institute.
In my previous blog post, I announced the new Process Capability platform in JMP 12 and shared some of the ideas that steered its development. Process capability analysis is used in many industries for assessing how well a stable process is performing relative to its specifications; it helps quality practitioners
Process capability analysis is an essential part of Six Sigma and many other quality initiatives that are used in a wide variety of industries. It assesses how well a stable process is performing relative to its specifications and helps quality practitioners understand the current state of their process so they
In my last blog post, I introduced the new Multiple Comparisons option available in Fit Model Least Squares in JMP 11 and showed an example where we compared the treatment means of two effects to the overall average. We learned how to examine a Comparison with Overall Average Decision Chart, also known
In a study, analysts often need to compare treatment means to determine which treatments are better or worse and by how much. There are a variety of ways to compare treatment means. Some of the most common are all pairwise comparisons of treatment means, comparisons of all treatment means against
This month we have chosen Florence Nightingale as an influential statistician to celebrate for the International Year of Statistics. While Florence Nightingale is most well-known as the founder of modern nursing and worldwide healthcare reform, she was also a passionate statistician and a pioneer in statistical graphics. Florence Nightingale was born on
My previous blog post discussed two new options in the JMP 10 Distribution platform for customizing the summary statistics and default quantiles reports. This blog post discusses another new JMP 10 feature for the Distribution platform for continuous data: Custom Quantiles. This feature gives the user even more customization options for studying
The Distribution platform, frequently the backbone of data exploration, is one of the most widely used platforms in JMP. The JMP 10 Distribution platform has additional customizations and options to make this phase of data exploration even more individualized and easier than before. This blog post will focus on the reports