Statistics for Experimenters: Design, Innovation, and Discovery. Second Edition

摘要

THE first edition was published in 1978, entitled Statistics for Experimenters: An Introduction to Design, Data Analysis and Model Building, and the order of the authorship was George E. P. Box, William G. Hunter and J. Stuart Hunter, with a nickname "BH2". Lloyd S. Nelson (1979) reviewed this book for Journal of Quality Technology (1978, p. 50). His comments were very positive, he wrote "The authors are to be congratulated for having written an excellent book. Students fortunate enough to have this as a, text will have the opportunity to learn much, and not the least from the review questions and numerous well constructed problems (answers are not given). Engineers wishing to advance their elementary understanding of statistical design and analysis will be delighted with this work. The writing is literate, and the technical aspects impeccable." Well, Lloyd is always right. The first edition is known to be the best-selling book, not only in the design area, but across all statistical disciplines, exclusive of general introductory statistics books. It is widely used in many design courses, both academic institutions and six sigma trainings. It is also the most cited book in all statistical research papers.