by Wong Kwok Keung. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1994. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 50-52). / Chapter 1. --- Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter 2. --- Taguchi's methodology in design of experiments --- p.3 / Chapter 2.1 --- System design / Chapter 2.2 --- Parameter design / Chapter 2.3 --- Tolerance design / Chapter 3. --- Inverse Gaussian distribution --- p.8 / Chapter 3.1 --- Genesis / Chapter 3.2 --- Probability density function / Chapter 3.3 --- Estimation of parameters / Chapter 3.4 --- Applications / Chapter 4. --- Iterative procedures and Derivation of the GLIM 4 macros --- p.21 / Chapter 4.1 --- Generalized linear models with varying dispersion / Chapter 4.2 --- Mean and dispersion models for inverse Gaussian distribution / Chapter 4.3 --- Devising the GLIM 4 macro / Chapter 4.4 --- Model fitting / Chapter 5. --- Simulation Study --- p.34 / Chapter 5.1 --- Generating random variates from the inverse Gaussian distribution / Chapter 5.2 --- Simulation model / Chapter 5.3 --- Results / Chapter 5.4 --- Discussion / Appendix --- p.46 / References --- p.50