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Institute of Quality & Reliability

Institute of Quality and Reliability (IQR) was established in Nov. 2005, with primary objective to help Industries for improving their quality and business performance. IQR also supports individuals aspiring to improve their knowledge and skills in Quality and Reliability.


This article series (videos) is dedicated to all those who want to learn and contribute to quality and reliability improvement to make this world better! Videos are created by Hemant Urdhwareshe and team. Hemant is a Fellow of American Society for Quality (ASQ) and is certified by ASQ as Six Sigma Master Black Belt, Reliability Engineer (CRE), Quality Manager (CMQ/OE) and Quality Engineer (CQE). He has 42 years of experience and wants to share his knowledge and experience with those who wish to acquire it!

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Covid-19 RT-PCR Test, Confusion Matrix and International Travel

Covid-19 RT-PCR Test, Confusion Matrix and International Travel

Dear friends, This is Hemant Urdhwareshe! I am uploading this video, which is different from our other videos! In this video, I have explained the “Confusion Matrix” and related terms such as Sensitivity, Specificity, Accuracy with reference to RT-PCR Test to detect Covid-19 infection. I and my son were isolated for Covid-19 as I was detected Covid-19 positive before my return travel and then isolated for about a fortnight in Egypt! This video is a result of my experience and review of travel rules! I am sure you will find this interesting and thought-provoking!

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Sample Size and Power In Hypothesis Testing

Sample Size and Power In Hypothesis Testing

Concepts and Application with Minitab Software

Institute of Quality and Reliability is happy to release this video on Power and Sample Size in the context of hypothesis testing. The video also contains application examples of power and sample size calculation for one-sample z-test using Minitab software.

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Confidence Intervals (Part 3) for Proportion and Standard Deviation

Dear friends, We are happy to release this third video in our series on Confidence Intervals! In this video, Hemant Urdhwareshe has explained how to determine confidence intervals for population proportion and standard deviation with day-today application examples! Hemant has also illustrated use of templates for quick calculation!

Links to other related videos:

Confidence Interval (Part-1) for Mean (Sigma Known)

Confidence Interval (Part-2) for Mean (Sigma unknown)

Chi-square Distribution

Chi-square Test of One Variance

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Confidence Intervals for Mean ( part-2:) : Using t-distribution

Dear friends, we are happy to release this Part-2 of our videos on Confidence Intervals. In this video, Hemant Urdhwareshe explains how to estimate confidence interval of population mean when population standard deviation sigma is not known In such cases, we need to use Student’s t-distribution instead of normal distribution and Z-Score.

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Confidence Interval of Population Mean (Part-1)

Dear friends, we are happy to release this video on confidence interval when population standard deviation is known. This is part-1 of our series on confidence intervals.

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Exponential Probability Plotting on Excel

Dear friends, we are glad to release this interesting video. In this video, Hemant Urdhwareshe explains procedure for probability plotting of failure data in Exponential Distribution using Excel. Hemant is a Fellow of ASQ and is certified as CRE, Six Sigma Master Black Belt, CQE and CMQ/OE by ASQ.

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Remember this Memoryless Exponential Distribution!

Remember this Memoryless Exponential Distribution!

Dear friends, I am happy to release our 59th video on Exponential Distribution! Exponential Distribution is an appropriate mathematical model when failure or hazard rate is constant. It is often known as “Memoryless” as reliability in any time interval is same! Exponential Distribution has many applications in Reliability Engineering such as electronic components. Many reliability procedures in MIL Standards assume constant failure rate and Exponential Distribution! Hope you find the video interesting and useful! Your feedback is welcome! Do subscribe to our channel to get updates on our new videos and programs!

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Accelerated Life Testing (ALT) Part-4 Determination of Activation Energy for Arrhenius Model

Accelerated Life Testing (ALT) Part-4 Determination of Activation Energy for Arrhenius Model

Dear All, This is our fourth video on Accelerated Life Testing (ALT). Some of the viewers had requested for procedure to determine the Activation Energy used in Arrhenius Model. This video explains experimental procedure to determine Activation Energy. Hope you find this useful! If you like the video, click on the “Thumbs-up icon” and subscribe to our channel for more videos on Quality and Reliability!

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ANOVA Part-2: Partitioning Sum of Squares

ANOVA Part-2: Partitioning Sum of Squares

Institute of Quality and Reliability is happy to release this second video on ANOVA! Viewers need to watch our video ANOVA Part-1 before watching this video. In this video, Hemant Urdhwareshe explains One-way ANOVA calculations using Sum of Squares on Excel. Hemant is a Fellow of ASQ and is certified by ASQ as Six Sigma Master Black Belt, CQE, CRE and CMQ/OE.

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ANOVA Part-1 Introduction, Concepts, and F-Test

ANOVA Part-1 Introduction, Concepts, and F-Test

Institute of Quality and Reliability (IQR) is happy to release this first video on Analysis of Variance (ANOVA). In this video, Hemant Urdhwareshe, Director of IQR and Fellow of ASQ, explains basic concepts of ANOVA and F-test of equal variances.

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Hypothesis Testing: Part-7 One and Two-proportion tests

Hypothesis Testing: Part-7 One and Two-proportion tests

Dear friends, we are happy to release this seventh video in our series on hypothesis testing. In this video, Hemant Urdhwareshe explains the applicability of proportion tests, procedure to perform these tests and interpretation of results. The concept is explained with application examples. Do let us know your feedback and subscribe if you like!

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Hypothesis Testing Part-6: Chi-Sq Test Contingency Tables

Hypothesis Testing Part-6: Chi-Sq Test Contingency Tables

Dear friends, we are happy to released this sixth video in our series on hypothesis testing! In tis video Hemant Urdhwareshe has explained procedure to perform chi-square test in case of contingency tables. Our objective is to compare different groups to assess whether these are independent or related.

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Hypothesis Testing Part-5: Chi-Square Test of One Variance

Hypothesis Testing Part-5: Chi-Square Test of One Variance

Dear friends, we are happy to released this fifth video in our series on Hypothesis Testing! In this video, Hemant Urdhwareshe explains the applicability of Chi-square test of one variance with an illustration! Hemant is Fellow of ASQ and is one of the few Certified Six Sigma Master Black Belts from ASQ having six certifications from ASQ.

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Hypothesis Testing Part-4: The Paired t-test

Hypothesis Testing Part-4: The Paired t-test

Dear friends, we are happy to release our fourth video in our series on Hypothesis Testing! In this video, Hemant Urdhwareshe explains the application of Student’s t-test for paired t-test using tables of t-distribution and using Microsoft Excel Add-ins. The concept is illustrated with an application example of comparing assessment of answer papers by two professors!

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Hypothesis Testing Part-3: Two Sample t-test with tables and using Excel

Hypothesis Testing Part-3: Two Sample t-test with tables and using Excel

Dear friends, we are happy to release our third video in our series on Hypothesis Testing! In this video, Hemant Urdhwareshe explains the application of Student’s t-test for comparison of two independent samples using tables of t-distribution and also using Microsoft Excel Add-ins. The concept is illustrated with an application example of comparing tire life of two makes.

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