TY - JOUR
AU1 - Bates, Douglas M.
AB - BOOK REVIEWS Most of the remaining chapters cover specialized topics that often occur The book starts with a brief introduction, “What is SPC Supposed To in the analysis of regression data. Ill-conditioning and ridge regression are Do?’ In this section the author sets realistic expectations for an SPC sys- covered in Chapters I6 and 17, respectively. Mixture models are discussed tem. He does a nice job of distinguishing between “process goals” and “product goals.” There were two important omissions, however. First, the in Chapter 19. The geometry of least squares is given special emphasis in this book, with Chapters 20 and 21 devoted to this topic. Chapter 23 author never identified the target audience. The publisher indicated on the back cover that the target audience is operators, technicians, SPC coordi- shows how calculations for two simple analysis of variance models can be related to calculations from suitably defined regression models. Nonlinear nators, engineers, and managers. I think operators and technicians could regression is outlined in Chapter 24. Robust regression is the subject of benefit from this book, but it is far too simplistic to be of much use to Chapter 25. Bootstrapping is given very brief coverage in Chapter 
TI - Programming With Data: A Guide to the S Language
JF - Technometrics
DO - 10.1080/00401706.1999.10485682
DA - 1999-08-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/taylor-francis/programming-with-data-a-guide-to-the-s-language-I0SB0SISOu
SP - 266
EP - 267
VL - 41
IS - 3
DP - DeepDyve
ER -