Keith M. Bower

Keith Bower received a Master of Science degree in Quality Management and Productivity from the University of Iowa. He also holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics with Economics from Strathclyde University, and is a Certified Quality Engineer from the American Society for Quality (ASQ).

He was a Technical Training Specialist with Minitab Inc., a Statistician with Unilever R&D, and is currently a Principal Quality Engineer with a large biotechnology firm in Seattle, WA.

Keith is a member of the American Statistical Association and a Senior Member of the ASQ.

Year	Activity
2000	Began publishing articles on applied statistics
2004	Created the website KeithBower.com to provide a central location for links to resources on the internet
2006	Began recording Audio and Video Podcasts on applied statistics, available via YouTube and (iTunes opens to the Podcasts when button is clicked)
2008	Narrated PowerPoint presentations on capability analysis made available via the ASQ's Statistics Division website
2009	Closed Captioning (CC) added to YouTube Podcasts, for hearing impaired customers Began writing and narrating short stories for children available through (iTunes opens to the Podcasts when button is clicked)
2010	Guest lecturer on applied statistics at the University of Washington

"I am acutely aware of the debt owed to those who laid the foundation for modern statistical methods," he said. "It is important to recognize that a substantial body of knowledge already exists in this discipline."

"On a personal level, I gain pleasure in reading and re-reading papers from the giants in statistics and quality. I strongly recommend practitioners to search out materials from R.A. Fisher, William S. Gosset, Walter Shewhart, W. Edwards Deming, George Box and others and, moreover, take the time to seriously consider their advice." Links to several important historical papers are available through this link.

His favorite quote is from Sir Isaac Newton:

"I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me."

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