DataPoints
Statistics play an important role in the ASTM International standards you write. A panel of experts is ready to answer your questions about how to use statistical principles in ASTM standards. Following is an archive of DataPoints articles published in Standardization News.
2024
May / June Solving Statistics Problems: How to Work with Difficult Data
Mar / Apr The Meaning of Statistical Confidence
2023
Nov/Dec Some fine points of determining conformity to specification
Sep/Oct How can a laboratory demonstrate its proficiency?
Jul/Aug What are Certified Reference Materials?
May/Jun Fundamental Measurement Concepts
Mar/Apr A Primer on the Poisson Distribution and Applications in Quality Control and Risk Analysis
Jan/Feb Quantifying Probability of Detection (POD) Using the Binomial Distribution
2022
Nov/Dec Understanding Populations
Sep/Oct Recognizing Multiplicity in Statistical Testing
Jul/Aug Controlling the Alpha Risk of Multiple Equivalence Tests
May/Jun Reporting for Hypothesis Tests
Mar/Apr Power and Sample Size, Part 1
Jan/Feb Design of Experiment: Why?
2021
Sep/Oct Statistical Testing in Context
Jul/Aug Building on Reliability: Reliability Test Planning, Part 3
May/Jun Building on Reliability: Reliability Test Planning, Part 2
Mar/Apr The (Mis)Use of Ordinary Linear Squares Regression
Jan/Feb Building on Reliability: Reliability Test Planning
2020
Nov/Dec The Impact of Measurement Variability Heterogeneity on Calibration and Control Charting
Sept/Oct Probability Models for Epidemics and Materials
Jul/Aug General Considerations for Working with Data
May/Jun Setting an Upper Confidence Bound on Proportion Nonconforming
Mar/Apr The Weibull Model — Building on Reliability
2019
Sep/Oct Questions about Sample Size
Jul/Aug The Kilogram, Redefined
May/Jun Uncertainty: Part 3, The Role and Estimation of Bias