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Making Decisions

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Basic Business Statistics

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In quality problems, we need to be assured that the process is functioning as designed. Therefore, ideas related to the confidence interval for the process mean are fundamental. In making a decision between two competing alternatives, we find that new issues arise.

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Foster, D.P., Stine, R.A., Waterman, R.P. (1998). Making Decisions. In: Basic Business Statistics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-1696-4_7

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