2 posts tagged 'probability'

2023

Tampering

Yesterday I wrote about common cause and special cause variation. Certain amount of randomness is always present in any system, and that causes fluctuations in the outcome. This is common cause variation. On the other hand, something unusual might happen from time to time which also affects the outcome. These …

2023

Common and Special Cause Variation

Yesterday I mentioned about output vs outcome, and how I prefer to focus on output instead of outcome. The reason being that there are many factors that influence outcome.

Some of those factors are things that you can control. Many are things that you cannot.

Case in point: I recently …