Glossary

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affinity diagram

A tool used to gather and group ideas; usually depicted as a “tree” diagram.

ANOM

(Analysis of the mean) An analytical process that quantifies the mean response for each individual control factor level. ANOM can be performed on data that is in regular engineering units or data that has been transformed into some form of signal-to-noise ratio or other data transform. Main effects and interaction plots are created from ANOM data.

ANOVA

(Analysis of the variance) An analytical process that decomposes the contribution each individual control factor has on the overall experimental response. The ANOVA process also can account for the contribution of interactive effects between control factors and experimental error in the response ...

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