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Deming statistics are a cargo cult. Try running some (Monte Carlo style) simulations; I did these many moons ago and they don't work at all.


I assure you Deming knew what he was doing, and my statistics knowledge is not limited to cargo culting the more popular SPC tools. However, they are useful for teaching the general public about accounting for the internal variation of data from the same population.

That said, as I've admitted in a more constructive parent comment, this tool was misapplied here due to my misreading of the GGP.




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