Walter A. Shewhart

(1891–1967) Physicist

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Walter A. Shewhart was a physicist, best known for Economic control of quality of manufactured product.

Quick Facts About Walter A. Shewhart

Born: March 18, 1891
Died: March 11, 1967
Profession: Physicist
Notable works: Economic control of quality of manufactured product

About Walter A. Shewhart

Walter Andrew Shewhart was an American physicist, engineer and statistician. He is sometimes also known as the grandfather of statistical quality control, inventor of the Shewhart chart and the Shewhart cycle.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Walter A. Shewhart

Postulate 3. Assignable causes of variation may be found and eliminated.

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Postulate 2. Constant systems of chance causes do exist in nature.

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Rule 1. Original data should be presented in a way that will preserve the evidence in the original data for all the…

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Both pure and applied science have gradually pushed further and further the requirements for accuracy and precision. However, applied science, particularly in…

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