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Organisations that make things or deliver services need to analyse their processes to ensure that the amount of variability that occurs is as small as possible and is due to unavoidable random fluctuations, rather than a lack of control of their process. Many organisations around the world have proved that using SPC to do this saves them very large sums of money.
This seminar will build on the prior seminar that introduces STATISTICA, and describes how to use STATISTICA for various parts of the Statistical Process Control (SPC) process. The seminar will not assume detailed knowledge or experience of SPC, but will instead use demonstrations of the use of STATISTICA to present the principles of this discipline.
What is STATISTICA
STATISTICA is a leading desktop statistics application, written with modern programming techniques to make it as easy as possible to allow you to specify exactly how to summarise small or large amounts of data, whether you know exactly what you need to analyse or whether you are using data exploration methods. Graphical tools are fully integrated into every analysis.
SPC is performed with a set of fully-integrated add-on modules to the basic product, so you can choose whether you use SPC techniques, or whether you explore your data using traditional statistics and customisable graphs.
With STATISTICA you can do many more kinds of analysis, in a small fraction of the time taken to do the simplest things in Excel. If you spend a lot of time on data analysis you will quickly recover the time spent to learn a new program, and the charge-out value of this time will repay the cost of STATISTICA and the optional training in a few months.
Much of this efficiency comes about because the data is laid out as a database table – you only refer to named variables (columns) when you specify an analysis. Other efficiency gains arise because STATISTICA is structured for data analysis, not for development of complex computational structures.
Because graphs are essential for understanding and presenting data, STATISTICA contains a large set of easily-customisable graphs, covering all the commonly-used ways to present data, and a lot of ways you won’t have thought of. The graphs are linked to the underlying data, so if you see an outlying point you just need to click on it to find out which one it is.
The menus have been structured with your analysis procedure in mind. If you want the equation that best describes the relation between two or more variables, you can get it. But the output dialog also makes it easy to create the relevant graphs to be sure you are not being misled by a few outlying points.
We strongly believe that data interpretation needs to be done by people who understand why and how the data was collected. With STATISTICA it now becomes possible for the average numerate professional person to explore their data thoroughly – come and let us show you how!
Overview of the Seminar
An introduction to SPC in general will be presented initially, followed by a number of hands-on demonstrations of the different parts of the program, including Statistical Quality Control, Design of Experiments and Reproducibility and Repeatability.
Seminar Highlights
Dr Ray Hoare has degrees in mathematics, physics and chemistry and worked for many years in industrial and environmental science. For more than 10 years he has been helping people to analyse engineering, science and business data, as well as presenting seminars and training people in the use of statistical software.
About STATISTICA
STATISTICA is a statistics-based product for exploring and summarising data. You can create graphs and do graphical data exploration, as well as creating statistical summaries of large or small amounts of data. It offers a comprehensive set of essential statistical tests in a user-friendly package, and all the performance, power and ease of use of the modern StatSoft technology.
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By being written with modern programming techniques, STATISTICA has managed to incorporate ease of use with powerful and flexible data graphing and statistical analysis.
For more about STATISTICA, click here.
The seminar will run for approximately 45 minutes with time for questions. If you can not attend the seminar, email leon@hrs.co.nz to be sent an information pack in the post.
To register for this FREE seminar click on one of the registration links below and fill in the form. Note: The Wellington seminar has been postponed from 21 March to 4 April.
PLEASE NOTE: Registrations are open to NZ residents only and international visitors wanting to attend seminars on this product should contact their local distributor.
