Short Case Scenario 7-1

question 96

Essay

Short Case Scenario 7-1
Alan Jackson is the founder and owner of Sky Scooters, a small manufacturing company located in San Jose, California. For years, Alan toyed with ideas for a motorized scooter. Seeing the success of the Segway scooter, Alan decided to act. Although his design, the Sky Cruiser, is not as well known as the Segway, it incorporates many of the same benefits. Adding to its appeal, the Sky Cruiser sells for almost $1,000 less than the Segway. Virtually all Sky Cruisers are sold through direct appeals on the QVC shopping network. Overwhelmed by recent demand, Alan has hired his sister, Colette. Colette, a recent business school graduate, has suggested that Alan consider a just-in-time production system. Alan wonders if this would be in his best interest.
-How should Alan Jackson assure quality in his Sky Scooters?

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Definitions:

Confidence Interval

A spectrum of values obtained from sample statistics, which is probable to encompass the value of an unidentified population parameter.

Population Parameter

A numerical characteristic or feature of an entire population, such as its mean or standard deviation.

Sampling Distributions

The distribution likelihood of a statistical value gathered from multiple samples from a given population.

Consistent Estimator

An attribute of an estimator indicating that as the sample size increases, the estimates it produces converge in probability to the parameter being estimated.