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<p>The Six Sigma Green Belt Handbook is a comprehensive, practical guide to becoming a Six Sigma Green Belt. Whether you're just starting down the path toward becoming a Green Belt, an experienced Green Belt, or if you're the person responsible for your organization's Six Sigma process, you'll find this handbook to be an invaluable addition to your Six Sigma library. It's a wealth of information for anyone who wants to learn new ways of using statistical improvement to improve his or her organization Legendary quality guru H. James Harrington and co-authors Praveen Gupta and Frank Voehl have distilled their decades of knowledge about Six Sigma into this helpful handbook.Chapters include:<br></p><ul> <li>Performing as a Team. Learn how to form and operate effective Six Sigma teams, help team members develop their statistical and personal skills, what each team member's role is, and how to select the right team members. </li> <li>Basic Green Belt Skills. What's the best tool for the job? Included are comprehensive descriptions and applications of commonly used Six Sigma skills, such as affinity diagrams, flowcharts, cause-and-effect diagrams, force field analysis, Kano models, root cause analysis, graphs, and Pareto charts. </li> <li>Six Sigma Software. Learn how to use Microsoft Excel and QI Macros to maximize your data analysis, how to apply analysis of variance (ANOVA) to dig deep into complex data and uncover gems of information, and how to present it clearly for managers and those without statistical backgrounds. </li> <li>Statistical Tools for Green Belts. Lean how to use statistical tools such as Poisson distributions, binomial distributions, sampling, and probability to breath new life into your Six Sigma program. </li></ul><p>The Six Sigma Green Belt Handbook also includes chapters on each of the DMAIC steps: define, measure, analyze, improve and control, as well as a full glossary of Six Sigma terms, and a list of Six Sigma's body of knowledge. This is a mus