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Discrete Data vs. Continuous Data
Quality during Design
English - March 02, 2022 12:00 - 10 minutes - 7.17 MBBusiness engineering design engineer quality reliability product development Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Once we've decided to control something (think of our prevention and detection controls), we then need to decide how to measure it. Different controls may need different measuring requirements, which can give us discrete or continuous data. We treat these data types differently when collecting it, determining sample sizes, and analyzing it for results. Tune-in to learn more about how to take the next step in defining controls: figuring out how to measure it and considering the data.
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Dianna Deeney helps product designers work with their cross-functional team to reduce concept design time and increase product success, using quality and reliability methods.
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