I'm actually in Montgomery's class at ASU. The book is a great companion to the already great lectures, and the practice problems are very helpful. The math and theory is explained in excruciating detail, if you're into that sort of thing. You'd be hard-pressed to find a finer tome about design of experiments and basic statistics. With that being said, each edition adds and omits some information. So the current edition is up-to-date with current methods and research, but if you wanted to get an older edition, you could probably scrimp by. Some of the practice problems are different between the editions as well (in part to capitalize on the new content and remove the old), but if you don't have assigned bookwork in your class you could definitely get away with it. Alternately, you could also get a much cheaper older edition as well as the current edition solutions manual for half the cost of the book (at the time I bought mine). Only throwing this last bit in there because I know what it's like to be a poor, overworked engineering student and this might help you if you need options. ;) Read more

Avevo ordinato un usato della versione originale con copertina rigida. Era recensita come nuova e in ottimo stato. Ho ricevuto una ristampa di quelle a basso costo con copertina flessibile Read more

reference text for quality program Read more

Disappointed. Read more

I used Dr. Montgomery's book as a reference material for his course under Arizona State University's six sigma black belt program. The book starts with a good review of experimental design concepts and inferential statistics. However, I do find his other book, Statistical Process Control, to be a much better inferential stat reference than this one because it does not 'rush thru' the review. Moving to chapter three is where the genius of the author becomes apparent. His approach was to discuss the theoretical aspects of a particular topic, relate it to back inferential statistics, discuss special cases or related topics (like a journal review paper), present problem/s and then show/discuss the solution using either design expert or JMP and diagrams. I cannot find any other better approach. Some of the previous books that I read are kind of 'cookbooks' which shows the reader how to do stuff using some method or software but did not really explain mathematically why it must be done in a particular way. This book did it elegantly. One reviewer mentioned that it is not a good book for hand calculation, which is true, but who does hand calculation these days? I cannot imagine myself pulling a graphing paper and drawing a response surface graph after working on several pages of calculations. The mathematics is not really hard ... only basic arithmetic and some basic linear algebra is all you need. Integrals/differentials and PDE's are mentioned in the second chapter to describe some functions but that's about it. However, it is important to understand the concepts early and sequentially as the topics build upon each other. For my case, one chapter takes about six hours total to read. The exercises are reasonable and emphasize the important concepts. It took me about 30 min to answer a reasonably challenging question. I would suggest buying the solutions manual to reduce your heartache or erase any doubts although be aware that not all exercises have a solutions in the manual. Read more