Course curriculum
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1 Managing Healthcare
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Video Overview
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1.1 Costs, Benefits, and Challenges
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1.2 Healthcare Value
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1.3 Lean
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1.4 Six Sigma
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1.5 Summary
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Quiz
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2 Lean Organizations
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Video Overview
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2.1 Lean Organizational Culture
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2.2 Challenges in Maintaining a Lean Culture
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2.3 Lourdes Hospital
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2.4 Summary
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Quiz
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Templates
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3
3 Basics of Lean Six Sigma
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Video Overview
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3.1 Defining a Process: Y=f(x)
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3.2 VOC, CTQ, VOP and COPQ
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3.3 Fundamental Challenges
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3.4 Continuous Improvement
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3.5 Eight Wastes
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3.6 Five S
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3.7 Cycle Time
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3.8 Lean Six Sigma as a Project
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3.9 Yale-New Haven Hospital
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3.10 Summary
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Quiz
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Templates
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4 Lean Six Sigma Cycle: DMAIC
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Video Overview
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4.1 Framework
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4.2 Measurement Systems Analysis
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4.3 North Shore Forest Hills Hospital
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4.4 Summary
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Quiz
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5 Improving Process Flow
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Video Overview
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5.1 SIPOC
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5.2 Productive Time and Elapsed Time
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5.3 Value Stream Mapping
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5.4 Process Mapping
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5.5 X-Y Matrix
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5.6 Metrics
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5.7 Kanban
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5.8 Takt Time
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5.9 The Limits to Efficiency: Covid-19
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5.10 LDS Hospital Salt Lake City
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5.11 Summary
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Quiz
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Templates
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6 Delays
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Video Overview
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6.1 Identifying Delays
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6.2 Eliminating Delays
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6.3 Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
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6.4 Summary
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Quiz
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7 Waste
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Video Overview
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7.1 Identifying Waste
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7.2 Managing Waste
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7.3 New York Presbyterian Children's Hospital
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7.4 Memorial Hermann Hospital
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7.5 Summary
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Quiz
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8 Errors
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Video Overview
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8.1 Identifying Errors
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8.2 Preventing Errors
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8.3 Checklists
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8.4 Brigham and Women's Hospital
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8.5 Summary
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Quiz
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9 Anticipating Problems and Risk Mitigation
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Video Overview
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9.1 Failure Mode and Effects Analysis
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9.2 Poka-Yoke
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9.3 Chipotle
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9.4 Boston Heart Diagnostics
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9.5 Summary
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Quiz
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Templates
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10 The Challenges of Six Sigma
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Video Overview
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10.1 Problem Finding
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10.2 Improving Process Efficiency
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10.3 Managing Process Mean and Variation
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10.4 Summary
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Quiz
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11 Six Sigma Tools
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Video Overview
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11.1 Basic Charts
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11.2 Control Charts
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11.3 Summary
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Quiz
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Templates
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12 Histograms
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Video Overview
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12.1 Root Cause
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12.2 Creating a Histogram
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12.3 Summary
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Quiz
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Templates
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13 Pareto Charts
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Video Overview
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13.1 Pareto Chart
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13.2 Summary
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Quiz
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Templates
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14 Fishbone Diagrams
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Video Overview
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14.1 Creating a Fishbone Diagram
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14.2 Examples in Healthcare
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14.3 Summary
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Quiz
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Templates
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15 Process Variation: Common and Special Cause
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Video Overview
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15.1 Common and Special Cause Variation
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15.2 Multi-Vari Charts
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15.3 Summary
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Quiz
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16 Standard Deviation
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Video Overview
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16.1 The Standard Deviation as a Measure of Variation
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16.2 Summary
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Quiz
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17 Probability Distributions
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Video Overview
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17.1 Classes of Distributions
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17.2 Special Properties of the Normal Distribution
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17.3 Z Value
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17.4 Summary
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Quiz
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Download Z Table
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18 Concept of a Six Sigma Process
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Video Overview
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18.1 Standard Deviation and the Concept of Six Sigma
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18.2 DPU, DPMO, RTY, FTY
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18.3 Summary
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Quiz
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Templates
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19 Sampling and Process Control
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Video Overview
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19.1 Sampling
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19.2 Process Control
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19.3 Summary
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Quiz
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20 Alpha and Beta Errors
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Video Overview
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20.1 Positioning the UCL and LCL
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20.2 Alpha Errors
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20.3 Beta Errors
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20.4 Summary
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Quiz
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21 Selecting the Appropriate Control Chart
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Video Overview
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21.1 A Step-By-Step Approach
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21.2 Summary
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Quiz
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Templates
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22 X-Bar Charts: N<12
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Video Overview
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22.1 Designing a New Six Sigma Monitoring System
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22.2 Establishing the Centerline of the X-Bar Chart
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22.3 Setting the UCL and LCL
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22.4 Summary
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Quiz
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Templates
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23 R-Charts: N<12
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Video Overview
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23.1 Establishing the Centerline
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23.2 Setting the UCL and LCL
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23.3 Summary
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Quiz
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Templates
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24 X-Bar Charts: 12
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Video Overview
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24.1 Constructing the X-Bar Chart: 12
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24.2 Summary
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Quiz
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Templates
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25 S-Charts: 12
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Video Overview
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25.1 Constructing the S-Chart
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25.2 Summary
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Quiz
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Templates
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26 X-Bar Charts: N>25
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Video Overview
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26.1 Constructing the X-Bar Chart
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26.2 Summary
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Quiz
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Templates
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27 P-Charts
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Video Overview
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27.1 Constructing the P-Chart
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27.2 Summary
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Quiz
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28 Patient and Customer Expectations: LSL and USL
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Video Overview
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28.1 Patient/Customer Expectations
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28.2 Taguchi Loss Function
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28.3 Process Capability
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28.4 Summary
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Quiz
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Templates
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29 Elements of a Control and Response Plan
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Video Overview
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29.1 Elements of a Control and Response Plan
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29.2 Summary
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Quiz
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Templates
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30 Hypothesis Testing
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Video Overview
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30.1 The Basics of Hypothesis Testing and Confidence Interval Estimation
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30.2 One Sample t-Test
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30.3 Two Sample t Test
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30.4 ANOVA
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30.6 Confidence Intervals
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30.5 Nonparametric Tests
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30.7 Summary
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Quiz
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Calculators
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31 Simple and Multiple Regression
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Video Overview
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31.1 Relationship Between Variables
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31.2 The Regression Line
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31.3 Significance
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31.4 Multiple Regression
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31.5 Summary
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Quiz
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Calculator
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32 AFLAC Insurance Company
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32.1 AFLAC
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33 Summary and Conclusions
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33.1 Summary and Conclusions
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34 The Lean Six Sigma Ladder
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34.1 Lean Six Sigma Ladder
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Project
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Project Instructions
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Seacoast Hospital
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Templates
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Template Solutions
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