Statistics for Six Sigma Green Belts with Minitab and JMP

6.1. Sampling Distributions

Basic Concepts

In Chapters 2–4, the basic concepts of statistics were introduced, and a variety of useful graphs and descriptive statistical measures were developed. In Chapter 5, “Probability and Probability Distributions,” the rules of probability were discussed, the probability distribution was defined, and some specific probability distributions used in Six Sigma management, such as the binomial, Poisson, and normal distributions, were studied.

This chapter provides the foundation for using statistical inference. In Chapter 2, “Introduction to Statistics,” inferential statistics were defined as those in which conclusions about a large set of data, called the population, are made from a subset of the data, called ...