William G. Hunter

Books

• Statistics for Experimenters: : An Introduction to Design, Data Analysis, and Model Building
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  Or view this classic text used widely in universities and corporations for over 20 years.

• Statistics for Experimenters: Design, Innovation, and Discovery
  Second Edition of this classic.

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Articles

• 101 Ways to Design an Experiment, or Some Ideas About Teaching Design of Experiments   view details
  A great article sharing ideas on teaching and learning about Design of Experiments (DoE), a powerful and greatly underutilized tool. 6 simga efforts have greatly increased the use of DoE.

• The Next 25 Years in Statistics   view details
  (with contributions by Joseph W. Duncan, A. Blanton Godfrey, Brian L. Joiner, Gary C. McDonald, Charles G. Pfeifer, Donald W. Marquardt, and Ronald D. Snee). A transformation of the American style of management has already begun; in order for it to succee

• Studies in Quality Improvement: Designing Environmental Regulations   view details
  "this report outlines a framework, which is based upon statistical quality control concepts, for designing environmental regulations... With slight modifications, the framework outlined in this report can be applied to the design of standards of all kinds

• Managing Our Way to Economic Success: Two Untapped Resources   view details
  "American organizations could compete much better at home and abroad if they would learn to tap the potential information inherent in all processes and the creativity inherent in all employees."

• Doing More With Less in the Public Sector: A Progress Report from Madison, Wisconsin   view details
  "The new quality improvement ideas can help public officials combat the effects of decreasing budgets just as they help private businesses increase productivity." Published in Quality Progress, July 1987.

• A Useful Method for Model-Building II: Synthesizing Response Functions from Individual Components   view details
  "Analyzing which components of a response are due to each factor is an alternative way to find the best model for studying the properties of a product or process (and thus for improving both)." Published in Technometrics.

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Web sites

• William G. Hunter
• Center for Quality and Productivity Improvement
  Founded in 1985 by George E.P. Box and the William Hunter at the University of Wisconsin - Madison. The technical report series is one of the best online management resources with reports authors including: George Box, W. Edwards Deming, Peter Scholtes, Kaoru Ishikawa, William Hunter, Gipsie Ranney and Brian Joiner.
• Statistics for Experimenters
  Web site for the classic book on design of experiments. Includes a search engine for statistics sites for managers.
• Life and Legacy of William G. Hunter
  George Box, Stuart Hunter and Bill wrote what has become a classic text for experimenters in scientific and business circles, Statistics for Experimenters. Bill also was a leader in the emergence of the management improvement movement. George Box and Bill co-founded the Center for Quality and Productivity Improvement at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Bill Hunter was also the founding chair of the ASQ statistics division.

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