Quality Quiz from PQ Systems e-Line
Posted by: meikah | 10 August 2010 | 8:01 pm
PQ Systems through it’s Quality eline newsletter brings us another quality quiz by Professor Leary.
For this month’s quiz, and a chance to win a copy of the newly-released collection of Quality Quiz Classics. Submit your response by August 27 to be entered in the drawing.
Here’s the quiz:
Russ T. Buckett, Quinn Quip’s boss at Quince’s Quality Quiche in Quincy, has been somewhat impressed—and surprised—by Quinn’s apparent expertise in sampling techniques. Last month, of course, he took a simple random sample of 42 people from Quincy, in order to estimate their average age. Fascinated, Russ asks Quinn if he will also find the average income of Quincy residents—in order to initiate appropriate marketing, he says, though Quinn knows that he’s just curious about salaries.
Winners of last month’s quiz and a copy of the Quality Quiz Classics DVD:
Jeannette Finch (Albon Manufacturing)
John Fraim (Sumitomo Electric Wiring Systems, Inc)
Michael Hagan (Gift of Life Michigan)
Martin Mutter (Wacker Chemical)
Michael Tappy (Kimberly-Clark Corp.)
Congratulations!
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Quality Quiz from PQ Systems e-Line
Posted by: meikah | 8 June 2010 | 7:41 pm
PQ Systems through it’s Quality eline newsletter brings us another quality quiz by Professor Leary.
For this month’s quiz, and a chance to win a copy of the newly-released collection of Quality Quiz Classics. Submit your response by June 28 to be entered in the drawing.
Here’s the quiz:
Quinn Quip, our hero of sample size, decided that all that thinking last month merited a short vacation, where he continued to ponder the implications of sample sizes that produce sample proportions that fall within 2 percent of the proportional mean. Reviewing formulas, textbooks, and video training, he remembered that the sample size of 2400 would mean that he could be 95 percent confident that the sample proportion would be within 2 percent of the true proportion. (Remember that = 5 was used as a conservative estimate for sample size.)
Winners of last month’s quiz and a copy of the Quality Quiz Classics DVD:
Benjamin Ayers (Bridgestone)
Dr. Sofica Bistriceanu (EGPRN, NAPCRG)
Diane Dixon (Future Electronics)
Andrew McDonald (Davey Water Products)
Debbie Meeks (Sentara Healthcare)
Congratulations!
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Quality Quiz from PQ Systems e-Line
Posted by: meikah | 12 May 2010 | 8:20 pm
PQ Systems through it’s Quality eline newsletter brings us another quality quiz by Professor Leary.
For this month’s quiz, and a chance to win a copy of the newly-released collection of Quality Quiz Classics, go to Quality Quiz. Submit your response by May 27 to be entered in the drawing.
Winners of last month’s quiz and a copy of the Quality Quiz Classics DVD:
Claire Bronstein (CaridianBCT)
Andre Kleyner (Delphi Corporation)
Raghu Malayanuru (Velosi LLC)
Laura McHugh (Provena Saint Joseph Medical Center)
Alistair Milne (MB Aerospace)
Congratulations!
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Quality Quiz from PQ Systems e-Line
Posted by: meikah | 14 April 2010 | 7:52 pm
PQ Systems through it’s Quality eline newsletter brings us another quality quiz by Professor Leary.
For this month’s quiz, and a chance to win a copy of the newly-released collection of Quality Quiz Classics, do the Quality Quiz. Submit your response by April 30 to be entered in the drawing.
Here’s the quiz:
Last month we looked again at the ongoing struggles of Quinn Quip, who has been trying to understand and implement the binomial central limit theorem. He has learned several lessons related to taking many sample proportions of the size 100 from a population with a mean of .50 and then forming a distribution with these sample proportions. Among the lessons:
- The mean of this distribution of sample proportions will be close to .50;
- The shape would follow a normal distribution;
- The variability of these sample proportions about the population mean of .50 would be
Winners of last month’s quiz and a copy of the Quality Quiz Classics DVD:
Alice Akelman (S.L. Alekman Associates, Inc.)
Michael Borton (Xerox Corporation)
Owen Gutteridge (MSP Group)
Bruce Jefferson (Bruns Machine)
Patty Walton (Cleveland Clinic)
Congratulations!
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Quality Quiz from PQ Systems e-Line
Posted by: meikah | 10 March 2010 | 6:46 pm
PQ Systems through it’s Quality eline newsletter brings us another quality quiz by Professor Leary.
For this month’s quiz, and a chance to win a copy of the newly-released collection of Quality Quiz Classics, go to Quality Quiz. Submit your response by February 26 to be entered in the drawing.
Start reading the quiz.
Last month we met Quinn Quip, quality manager for Quince’s Quality Quiche in Quincy. In a market survey, Quinn wanted to determine the percent of outlets—restaurants, hotels, bakeries, and cafes, as well as private residents—in Quincy who sell or consume the quiche that his company makes. He took many samples of a (sample) size of 100. He found that on average 50 out of the 100 sampled use Quince’s Quality Quiche, and reported to his boss that half the town—give or take 2 percent—are customers.
Winners of last month’s quiz and a copy of the Quality Quiz Classics DVD are:
Dan Frederick (Andersen Corporation)
Nayna Modi (Sentara Health Systems)
Walter Prowse (BAE Systems)
Breeda M Worthington (NHS UK)
and Donna Yeakel (Greene Tweed Co. Inc.)
Congratulations!
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Quality Quiz from PQ Systems e-Line
Posted by: meikah | 15 February 2010 | 8:57 pm
PQ Systems through it’s Quality eline newsletter brings us another quality quiz by Professor Leary.
For this month’s quiz, and a chance to win a copy of the newly-released collection of Quality Quiz Classics, go to Quality Quiz. Submit your response by February 26 to be entered in the drawing.
Start reading the quiz.
Quinn Quip is quality manager for Quince’s Quality Quiche located in the quiet quarter of commercial Quincy. Quince’s provides quality quiche to restaurants and other outlets throughout the world, but Quinn is especially interested in determining the percentage of local outlets that depend on Quince’s Quality Quiche.
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Quality Quiz from PQ Systems e-Line
Posted by: meikah | 13 January 2010 | 8:00 pm
PQ Systems through it’s Quality eline newsletter brings us another quality quiz by Professor Leary.
For this month’s quiz, and a chance to win a copy of the newly-released collection of Quality Quiz Classics, go to Quality Quiz. Submit your response by January 29 to be entered in the drawing.
Start reading the quiz:
Cal Lesterol is a technician in the quality department of Fourlegs Furniture Manufacturing. His boss, Les Casteroyl, wants him to take greater initiative in presenting data to management, so when Cal brings Les a scatter diagram, Les is interested. He had prepared the chart to show that when the outside temperature went up, the number of defects in the chair leg assembly went down.
Winners of last month’s quiz and a copy of the Quality Quiz Classics DVD are:
Jon Bartlett (Electrolux)
Martin Cable (Greenhouse Park Innovation Centre)
Stephanie Sullivan (Mid-States Rubber Products, Inc.)
John Venneri (Berkley Medical)
Rachael Wakeling (Amcor Resources)
Congratulations!
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Quality Quiz from PQ Systems e-Line
Posted by: meikah | 9 December 2009 | 8:24 pm
PQ Systems through it’s Quality eline newsletter brings us another quality quiz by Professor Leary.
For this month’s quiz, you get a chance to win a copy of the newly-released collection of Quality Quiz Classics. Submit your response by December 31 to be entered in the drawing.
Here’s the quiz:
As he was making his patient rounds each day at St. Marble and Glass Hospital, Dr. D. Fib Rillayter kept running into evidence of patients in restraints—those who might be considered risks for hurting themselves or others if they were not restrained. Dr. D. Fib Rillayter knew that while many restraints were applied appropriately for only short periods of time, the mounting use of such restraints for prolonged periods of time was nonetheless troubling.
Winners of last month’s quiz and a copy of the Quality Quiz Classics DVD are:
Bob Fullenkamp (American Honda)
Cyndi Lee (Mayo Clinic)
Neil Melbourne (Edscha AG)
Sandra Morris (GlobalMed Inc.)
Ryan Punch (Australian Springs)
Congratulations!
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Quality Quiz from PQ Systems e-Line
Posted by: meikah | 10 November 2009 | 7:26 pm
PQ Systems through it’s Quality eline newsletter brings us another quality quiz by Professor Leary.
For this month’s quiz, you get a chance to win a copy of the newly-released collection of Quality Quiz Classics. Submit your response by November 30 to be entered in the drawing.
Our dauntless newly-appointed quality manager, Hartford Simsack, stumbled into the central limit theorem last month, with the help of Dr. Stan Deviation. While the concept seemed fascinating to him, it never occurred to him that it might be useful in understanding how control charts work. You will recall that he used Quality Gamebox to demonstrate the central limit theorem.
Winners of last month’s quiz who will get a copy of the Quality Quiz Classics DVD each are:
Alejandra Bahena (Teleflex)
Sheldon Parmer (Hewlett-Packard Company)
Steve Salter (Morgan Advanced Ceramics)
Robert Tucker (Continental Crushing & Conveying)
and Karen Whitmire (BorgWarner)
Congratulations!
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Quality Quiz from PQ Systems e-Line
Posted by: meikah | 13 October 2009 | 7:07 pm
PQ Systems through it’s Quality eline newsletter brings us another quality quiz by Professor Leary.
For this month’s quiz, you get a chance to win a copy of the newly-released collection of Quality Quiz Classics. Submit your response by October 27 to be entered in the drawing.
Predicting behavior of averages can be as fascinating as predicting the behavior of animals. Hartford Simsack, the intrepid quality manager for Greer Grate & Gate, sometimes thought of himself as a visitor to the zoo, watching his averages and trying to anticipate what to him was always a complete surprise in the behavior of data. “I never know if this is going to turn out to be a normal distribution or not,†he told his mentor, Dr. Stan Deviation.
Winners of last month’s quiz and a copy of the Quality Quiz Classics DVD are:
Ellen Cone (Lanxess Corp.)
Craig James (FG Wilson)
Lyn Martin (Telstra)
Paul Smith, (Caterpillar Inc.)
Kristen G. van Bergen-Buteau (Littleton Regional Hospital)
Congratulations!
