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General Statistical Applications

Total Quality, Quality Control and Quality by Design (Book, in Hebrew)

This book was self-published back in 1992 (2nd edition in 1995). A unique feature of the book is that each page is structured as a separate slide, which may be integrated into a presentation. Related theoretical material is deferred to the appendices.

The book had gained popularity in Israel in institutions, academic and otherwise, where courses, or workshops, in quality engineering had been taught.

It may now be downloaded free here (with bookmarks that allow easy access to each chapter):

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My Research on Modeling Fetal and Child Growth

Modeling and Monitoring Fetal Growth

In the last several years (indeed since October, 2010), I have been engaged, with a team of researchers, in collecting data and constructing a new approach to modeling and monitoring fetal growth. The modeling approach is based on Response Modeling Methodology (RMM; see at Wikipedia), a new modeling approach that I have been developing in the last decade or so. The monitoring approach is based on modern principles of Statistical Process Control (SPC), more specifically, SPC-based monitoring of non-linear profiles.

With me in the research team is Dr. Diamanta Benson-Karhi, the initiator of this research effort (from the Open University of Israel), Prof. Asher Bashiri (of the Soroka Medical Center, affiliated to Ben-Gurion (BG) University), and, until recently, Mrs. Maya Malamud, who has just concluded her MSc studies, conducting research and supervising several undergraduate final-project teams in my department at BG University.

A first published document, describing the methodology developed within this research effort, is to appear in the June issue (2014) of Quality Engineering, a journal affiliated to the ASQ (American Society for Quality).

Update (June, 24, 2024): Here are links to the two published papers:

  • Diamanta Benson-Karhi, Haim Shore, Maya Malamud. Modelling Fetal-Growth Biometry with Response Modeling Methodology (RMM) and Comparison to Current Models. Article. January 2017. Communication in Statistics- Simulation and Computation.  DOI: 10.1080/03610918.2017.1280160
  • Haim Shore, Diamanta Benson-Karhi, Maya Malamud, Asher Bashiri. Customized fetal growth modelling and monitoring-a statistical process control approach. Article. July 2014. Quality Engineering. DOI: 1080/08982112.2013.830742