Manufacturing applications. See also Automotive/motor vehicle applications; Construction/home improvement/home purchases and sales applications

• active nuclear power plants, 64–65, 70

• aluminum smelter pot life span, 569–570

• bursting strength of bottles, 410

• child labor in diamond mines, 541

• consumer complaints, 146, 149

• contaminated gun cartridges, 180

• cooling method for gas turbines, 330, 351

• corrosion prevention of buried steel structures, 20

• cutting tool life span tests, 523, 550

• defect rate comparison between machines, 458–459

• defective batteries, 340–341

• estimating repair and replacement costs of water pipes, 515, 528

• flexography printing plates, evaluation of, 432

• freckling of superalloy ingots, 109

• increasing hardness of polyester composites, 337

• lot acceptance sampling, 220–221

• metal lathe quality control, 314

• preventing production of defective items, 288

• quality control monitoring, 314

• reliability of a manufacturing network, 181

• settlement of shallow foundations, 396–397, 418

• soft-drink bottles, 245

• softness ratings of paper, 412–413

• solar energy cells, 180, 397, 402, 419, 553

• spall damage in bricks, 572

• temperature and ethanol production, 433

• testing manufacturer’s claim, 234–235

• thickness of steel sheets, 227–228

• twinned drill holes, 395–396

• weapons development, 167, 205–206, 212–213

• when to replace a maintenance system, 243

• wind turbine blade stress, 566

• yield strength of steel connecting bars, 337

Marine/marine life applications, 96

• contaminated fish, 289–292

• lobster fishing, 529, 540, 561

• lobster trap placement, 273, 287, 294, 335, 357, 383–384

• mercury levels in wading birds, 318

• oil spill and seabirds, 102, 109–110, 438, 488

• rare underwater sounds, 128

• scallop harvesting and the law, 301

• sea turtles and beach nourishment, 419–420

• sea turtles’ shell lengths, 69, 207, 237, 264, 273, 294

• shrimp quality, 356

• underwater acoustic communication, 194, 345

• underwater sound-locating abilities of alligators, 344

• whales entangled in fishing gear, 431

• whistling dolphins, 109

Medical/medical research/alternative medicine applications. See also Dental applications; Genetics applications; Health/health care applications

• abortion provider survey, 140

• accuracy of pregnancy tests, 164

• Alzheimer’s detection, 468, 483

• Alzheimer’s treatment, 299–300

• ambulance response time, 156, 208

• angioplasty’s benefits challenged, 457, 460

• animal-assisted therapy for heart patients, 78–79, 434, 439

• asthma drug, 299–300

• blood typing method, 96, 514, 521–522

• brain specimen research, 52, 91, 299

• bulimia, 383, 402

• Caesarian births, 193, 222

• cancer and smoking, 143–145

• cardiac stress testing, 153

• characterizing bone with fractal geometry, 531

• comparing measuring instruments, 400–401

• contact lenses for myopia, 64

• dance/movement therapy, 571

• dementia and leisure activities, 398

• depression treatment, 437–438

• drug content assessment, 215–216, 351, 384–385

• drug designed to reduce blood loss, 33–35

• drug response time, 315–316, 324–325, 520, 525, 537, 543–544

• drug testing, 130, 492

• dust mite allergies, 242

• eating disorders, 52, 243

• effectiveness of TV program on marijuana use, 464–465

• emergency room waiting time, 223

• errors in medical tests, 361

• ethnicity and pain perception, 386–387

• eye refraction, 64

• eye shadow, mascara, and nickel allergies, 282, 288

• FDA mandatory new-drug testing, 359

• fitness of cardiac patients, 244

• gestation time for pregnant women, 243–244

• guided bone regeneration, 410

• healing potential of handling museum objects, 396, 418

• heart patients, healing with music, imagery, touch, and prayer, 481–482

• heart rate during laughter, 329

• herbal medicines and therapy, 21, 359

• HIV vaccine efficacy, 484–485

• honey as cough remedy, 51, 62, 70, 92, 294–295, 433–434

• hospital administration of malaria patients, 456

• hospital admissions, 135–136

• hospital stay, length of, 94–95, 255–257, 326

• interocular eye pressure, 362

• jaw dysfunction, 466–467

• LASIK surgery complications, 222

• latex allergy in health care workers, 262, 300, 350–351

• lung cancer CT scanning, 22

• male fetal deaths following 9/11/2001, 346

• MS and exercise, 442

• multiple sclerosis drug, 492

• olfactory reference syndrome (ORS), 282, 288

• pain empathy and brain activity, 531, 563

• pain tolerance, 541

• perceptions of emergency medical residents, 411–412

• placebo effect and pain, 396

• post-op nausea, 130

• psoriasis treatment with “Doctorfish of Kangal,” 92, 417–418

• reaction time to drugs, 405–407, 503, 507–510

• skin cancer treatment, 176–177

• skin cream effectiveness, 363

• sleep apnea and sleep stage transitioning, 139–140, 154

• splinting in mountain-climbing accidents, 281–282

• stability of compounds in drugs, 49–50, 82, 328

• sterile couples in Jordan, 159

• teamwork between doctors and nurses, 411

• tendon pain treatment, 420–421

• transplants, 164, 450, 477–479

• virtual reality hypnosis for pain, 318

• yoga for cancer patients, 431

Miscellaneous applications:

• Benford’s Law of Numbers, 110

• box plots and standard normal distribution, 209

• customers in line at Subway shop, 170

• evaporation from swimming pools, 262–263

• fill weight variance, 346–349

• impact of dropping ping-pong balls, 553

• jitter in water power system, 300

• marine selection, 125

• matching socks, 130

• National Bridge Inventory, 21

• national firearms survey, 153, 280–281

• psychic ability, 156, 194

• quantitative models of music, 522

• questionnaire mailings, 245

• random numbers, 19–20

• randomly sampling households, 13

• regression through the origin, 571–572

• selecting a random sample of students, 160

• sound waves from a basketball, 52, 96–97, 170, 516, 549

• spreading rate of spilled liquid, 97–98, 517–518, 532, 550

• symmetric vs. skewed data sets, 63

• testing normality, 495

• TNT detection, 156

• Winchester bullet velocity, 78

Motor vehicle applications. See Automotive/motor vehicle applications