Mathematical Sciences: International Research Conference on Reliability; to be held June 19-22, 1991 in Columbia, Missouri

可靠性和质量是与提高产品质量密切相关的概念。在这个高科技工业的时代，发展技术以确保材料的一致性能、质量和可靠性是人们相当感兴趣的。由于所涉及的费用巨大，而且在早期做出正确决定的压力很大，因此有必要设计适当的统计技术，使实验者甚至在实验结束之前就能做出有效的统计决定。因此，可靠性和质量已被证明是与国家需要有关的研究领域。这笔赠款将部分支持1991年6月在密苏里大学举行的可靠性会议。与会者将包括来自学术界、工业界和政府领域的代表。这些工程师和统计学家的互动应该被证明有利于未来发展急需的过程改进方法。

Reliability and Quality are closely related concepts dealing with improvement of product quality. In this age of high-tech industry, the development of technology to ensure consistent performance, quality and reliability of materials are of considerable interest. Because of the magnitude of the expenditures involved and the pressure to make early decisions correctly, it has been necessary to devise suitable statistical techniques that would enable the experimenter to make valid statistical decisions even before the experiment is terminated. Thus reliability and quality have proven to be areas of research related to national need. This grant will partially support a conference on Reliability at the University of Missouri in June, 1991. Participants will include representatives from the academic, the industrial and the governmental spheres. The interaction of these engineers and statisticians should prove to be beneficial for future development of much needed process improvements methodology.