Abstract #302220

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JSM 2003 Abstract #302220
Activity Number: 98
Type: Contributed
Date/Time: Monday, August 4, 2003 : 9:00 AM to 10:50 AM
Sponsor: Section on Physical and Engineering Sciences
Abstract - #302220
Title: Statistics in a Large Airplane Manufacturer
Author(s): Julio L. Peixoto*+
Companies: The Boeing Company
Address: PO Box 3707, Seattle, WA, 98124-2207,
Keywords: industrial statistics ; design of experiments ; quality control ; data mining ; wind tunnel
Abstract:

The Applied Statistics Group at Boeing is one of the premier industrial statistics units in the world. The group currently consists of 17 statisticians, 15 of them PhDs. This presentation explains the challenges statisticians face in this huge aerospace company, and the work we do in areas such as Design of Experiments, Quality Control, Reliability, Time Series, Data Analysis, Data Mining, and basic research.

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