Talk:Genichi Taguchi

141.140.6.60
This sentence seems to be the central one of the whole article:
 * Taguchi's innovation was to replicate each experiment by means of an outer array, itself an orthogonal array that seeks deliberately to emulate the sources of variation that a product would encounter in reality.

Unfortunately, the sentence is utterly unintelligible. What is an "outer array" or an "orthogonal array"? Could we see a tiny example? 141.140.6.60 00:28, 8 May 2005 (UTC)

The article keeps mentioning "Western statisticians" at least a dozen times. Is there any palpable distinction between "Western" and "Eastern" statisticians, and if so, do the Eastern statisticians accept his methods? 141.140.6.60 00:32, 8 May 2005 (UTC)

Loss functions - theorem
Italicized part (from a previous editor) moved here from main page: The squared-error loss function had been used by John von Neumann and Oskar Morgenstern in the 1930s. There is a theorem I think - help appreciated
 * —- Xsmith (talk•contribs) 03:06, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

Overlap between Genichi Taguchi and Taguchi methods
Is there any reason that the page 'Genichi Taguchi' is almost identical to the page 'Taguchi Methods'? The only difference is the first paragraph and the section on 'Life'. 202.180.110.18 (talk) 22:38, 17 June 2008 (UTC)


 * Well spotted; I have inserted a brief summary here, with a link to the main article. We should not have the same text in both articles. -- Jayen 466 23:05, 17 June 2008 (UTC)

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