Hypothesis generation in quality improvement projects: Approaches for exploratory studies

Quality and Reliability Engineering International

Volumn 22, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 839-850

  De Mast, Jeroen ^a   Bergman, Marcus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Abduction; Clue generation; Diagnosis; Discovery; Exploratory data analysis; Problem solving

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DATA REDUCTION; PROBLEM SOLVING; QUALITY CONTROL; STATISTICAL METHODS;

ABDUCTION; CLUE GENERATION; EXPLORATORY DATA ANALYSIS; SIX SIGMA PROJECTS;

PROJECT MANAGEMENT;

EID: 33746324302     PISSN: 07488017     EISSN: 10991638     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qre.767     Document Type: Article

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