W. Edwards Deming (1900–1993)

W. Edwards Deming on Teaching and Research

According to Deming, there is a close link between teaching and research. We present some of his contributions to to statistical theory and methods, as well as his perspective on teaching and research.

In God We Trust. All Others Must Bring Data. - W. Edwards Deming. Using Word Embeddings to Recognize Idioms

Expressions, such as add fuel to the fire, can be interpreted literally or idiomatically depending on the context they occur in. Many Natural Language Processing applications could improve their performance if idiom recognition were improved. Our approach is based on the idea that idioms violate cohesive ties in local contexts, while literal expressions do not. We propose two approaches: 1) Com...

A. W. F. Edwards and the Origin of Bayesian Phylogenetics

In the early 1960s, Anthony Edwards and Luca Cavalli-Sforza made an effort to apply R. A. Fisher’s maximum-likelihood method to estimate genealogical trees of human populations using gene-frequency data. They used the Yule branching process to describe the probabilities of the trees and branching times and the Brownian-motion process to model the drift of gene frequencies (after a suitable tran...

Do doctors need Deming?

Amongst the relatively new group of health professionals concerned with evaluating the quality of care there is confusion with regard to the terminology of programs for assessing that care. The new terminologies of Total Quality Management (TQM) and Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) certainly imply a greater involvement by "managers" of health care facilities. If this leads to the provision ...

Test data matrix and results for linear regression analysis by method of W. E. Deming.