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Recall Deming’s advice to “Measure, measure, measure.” All engineers are fact based decision makers and often the facts we use involve numbers. How should engineers use numbers to make decisions?

• 10.1 Collecting data
• 10.2 Visual display of data
• 10.3 Models in general
• 10.4 Deterministic models
• 10.5 Stochastic models