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Workshop 6 · In-Class Activity
[In-Class Activity] Explain It: Process Control Indices
An in-class activity from the course slides — reproduced here so you can find it again after class.
📋 What to do
- Your group has been assigned 1 of the 6 Process Control Indices questions below.
- 0.1 Open the Team Boards and choose the topic “Explain It Process Indices”.
- 0.2 Pick the problem for your team's question. (Forgot your team number? Check at Canvas >> People >> Finalized Groups.)
- 0.3 Put your team name and your members in the header first, before you write anything else — that is what makes the board yours and what we present from.
- 1. Answer your question in the Notes pane; put any code in the Code pane. The questions:
- Q1. Indices Cp and Pp have a key difference from indices Cpk and Ppk. What is that difference, and what kind of data does it help us analyze?
- Q2. Indices Cp and Cpk measure a different kind of variation from indices Pp and Ppk. What is that difference, and why might we need to measure one kind of variation instead of the other?
- Q3. What is a bootstrapped confidence interval, and how does it differ from a so-called ‘usual’ confidence interval? (Theory question)
- Q4. What is the
sample_n()function from dplyr, what does it do, and how do we use it to bootstrap confidence intervals? (Code question) - Q5. How do you generate a confidence interval, without bootstrapping, for each index? Explain what it does — don't just copy code.
- Q6. What is a z-score? When do we use it? Why do we say
qnorm(0.975)?
- 2. Press Save, then Copy for Canvas, and paste it into the Canvas card.
- We present straight from the boards in the presenter view — about 2 minutes per team.
📮 Submit
Submit on CANVAS here [link] (1 pt) — graded on completion. Press Save, then Copy for Canvas on your board, and paste it into the Canvas text box.
Note: work from this page — it is where the activity and its links (slide decks, shared materials) are maintained, and details may still be refined before class. Submission happens on Canvas, and so do the due date and your grade.