The Golden State Warriors beat the Cleveland Cavaliers to win the NBA championship despite the best efforts of LeBron James. With the Cavaliers depleted by injuries (particularly to Kevin Love and Kyrie Irving), James was faced with carrying his team against a very talented and well-rounded Warriors team. And he
There’s a saying in publishing that you measure a book’s impact in two ways: how many people buy it, and how many people read it. There’s a similar saying in statistics: You measure a technique’s impact by how many people know about it and by how many people actually use
In any computer software, it’s not unusual to have a set of preferences to allow customization to the settings. JMP is no exception. For example, in JMP 12, the Categorical platform allows for a great deal of the output to be tailored to the user’s preferences. Here’s what we see
In an earlier post, I introduced the Probability and Multiple Choice Profiler, two new tools in the Choice Platform that help visualize comparisons between competing products and predict market share for proposed new products. This post covers step-by-step instructions for how to open and use the profilers in JMP 12.
In my previous blog post, I created a 150-run space filling design to collect travel times over various departure times in the morning and evening. I wanted to see if I use this designed experiment to learn something useful about my commute. Google Maps gives a range of times for
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
The Quality & Productivity Research Conference is about to take place in our backyard (so to speak) at the School of Textiles at North Carolina State University. And it includes a field trip to our front yard. The theme of the meeting is Creativity and Innovation for a Connected World.
A quick review of QbD The first blog post in this series described Quality by Design (QbD) in the pharmaceutical industry as a systematic approach for developing drug products and drug manufacturing processes. Under QbD, statistically designed experiments are used to efficiently and effectively investigate how process and product factors
Developing new drugs is a complex, lengthy and expensive endeavor. When the process leads to an approved drug, the result is improved patient care and great benefits for the developers. But many promising drugs never live up to expectations. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), observing that new drug
Which computer hard drives are most reliable? And how often should you replace a hard drive? Those are some of the questions I hope to answer in exploring and analyzing data about hard drive tests. A company called Backblaze, which offers online data backup services, generously makes this data available