Multidimesnional scaling has been used in the layout of chips. Graph theory has been used in understanding networks. All kinds of QA stats (control charts, etc) are used in studying HW production, SW production, social/psych stats are used in usability studies, customer satifaction, needs assessment, etc.
Yves Chandon wrote: > We have used DOE to optimize both the performance and execution time of a > program a few years ago. It has allowed us to shorten execution time the > performance (cost saving) being the same. We have also tried a DOE on > survival data (censored) with time before computer crash being the data. > > Yves > > "Nancy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > abpaa5$c23$[EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:abpaa5$c23$[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > > > > "John Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > > > What are some direct applications of statistics in this field? > > > > I have used experimental design statistics for performance evaluation and > > quality assurance applications. For example, you have a set of systems > that > > you want to determine has the best cost/performance ratio... design an > > experiment to help you figure out which one is "the winner". When you run > > performance benchmarks, how do you determine if the observered performance > > difference is due to a difference in the systems or due to random error? > > > > Performance monitoring also has quite a few applications as well. > > > > Hope this helps... > > > > Nancy > > > > . . ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at: . http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ . =================================================================
