The Psychology of Quality and More

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Tables

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There are some applications where information is not numeric and where a pictorial display is either inappropriate or impossible.

Description

Tables give a flexible approach to structuring various types of information, and may be viewed as a form of matrix. They typically contain text, symbols or numbers, arranged in rows and columns, as in the table below.

Fig. 1. Example table

Examples

Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA)

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