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Black Belt Six Sigma

Instructions:
  • Answer 15 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
  • Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.

This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. System(concept) design - then parameter design - then tolerance design






2. Cumulative Sum






3. The risk of accepting the null hypothesis when - in fact - the alternate hypothesis is true. In other words - stating no difference exists when there is an actual difference. A statistical test should be capable of detecting differences that are impo






4. Upper control limit






5. The probability that a single unit can pass through a series of process steps free of defects.






6. A square matrix of n rows and columns - a technique to control for order effects without having all possible orders; a limited set of orders constructed to ensure that each condition appears at each ordinal position and each condition precedes and fo






7. Degrees of freedom






8. Determines how much area under a distribution is in the critical region - type 1 risk






9. A specific repeated-measures design with built-in counterbalancing - cannot be used when estimations of interactions are desired






10. A quality improvement tool. Understand effects of process on output.






11. Evolutionary Operations






12. Exponentially weighted moving average






13. Scale that uses numbers (5 strongly agree - 4 agree...) - focuses on measuring the direction of an attitude






14. Confused experiment or confounded






15. They are not fractional factorial and they are main effects only