The Mahalanobis-Taguchi System

Rating:
Summary: some interesting cases but hardly a scientific method
Review: this is not a pretty book, either visually (ugly typesetting) or content. i'm glad it's printed on recycled paper. otherwise, it would be a bigger waste of trees. Mc-Graw's standard seems to have gone downhill.

Some examples are quite intesreting. however, this book should really be called "Case Studies by Mahalanobis-Taguchi System" cause it really does not tell you much about the methodogy, its limitations, and its statistical basis. also it's assumption (e.g., linearity of a system) has never been clearly stated. that is not a scientic method.

Furthermore, there's no bibliography of good references about the method, except the incestuous self-referencing.

I also do not recommend the other book on Taguchi method by Dr. Taguchi et. al.