Engineering statistics
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Engineering statistics is a branch of statistics that has two subtopics which are particular to engineering:
- Quality control and process control use statistics as a tool to manage conformance to specifications of manufacturing processes and their products.
- Time and methods engineering use statistics to study repetitive operations in manufacturing in order to set standards and find optimum (in some sense) manufacturing procedures.
References
- Adapted from the Wikipedia article, "Engineering_statistics" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engineering_statistics, used under the GNU Free Documentation License
