Curious Cat Statistics Connections

• Leader Bios: W. Edwards Deming - Sir Ronald A. Fisher - Walter A. Shewhart
• American Statistical Association
• Royal Statistical Society
• ASQ Statistics Division
• Electronic Statistics Textbook - huge online resource from Statsoft
• University of Wisconsin - Madison Statistics Department
• Minitab, software.
• Statistical Designs
• Curious Cat Statistics web search

Curious Cat Management Improvement Library - Statistics

• Statistics for Discovery by George Box
• Role of Statistics in Quality and Productivity Improvement by George Box
• The Key Role of Statisticians in the Transformation of North American Industry
  by Brian Joiner     Joiner Associates     American Statistician, August 1985
• "101 Ways to Design an Experiment, or Some Ideas About Teaching Design of Experiments," by William G. Hunter, 1975, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
• Which Chart Should I Use?
  by Donald J. Wheeler     SPC Toolkit Column Quality Digest Magazine
• When Do I Recalculate My Limits?
  by Donald J. Wheeler     SPC Toolkit Column Quality Digest Magazine

Curious Cat Management Improvement Books - Statistics 

• Box, George, William Hunter and Stu Hunter. Statistics for Experimenters, 2nd Edition, 2005.
• Juran J.M. and Frank Gryna. Juran's Quality Control Handbook. Fourth Edition 1988, McGraw Hill.
• Joiner, Brian. Fourth Generation Management. McGraw-Hill, 1994.
• Kume, Hitoshi. Statistical Methods for Quality Improvement. 1985.
• Shewhart, Walter. Statistical Method from the Viewpoint of Quality Control. Graduate School of the Department of Agriculture, 1939, 1986.   details
• Shewhart, Walter. The Economic Control of Quality of Manufactured Products. 1931, 1980.
• Wheeler, Donald J. Understanding Variation: The Key to Managing Chaos. 1993.   details
• Wheeler, Donald J. and David Chambers. Understanding Statistical Process Control, 2nd Edition. 1991.

For managers with little or no prior experience with statistics Brian Joiner's Fourth Generation Management provides a good place to start.