John Lawson

John Lawson is a Professor Emeritus from the Statistics Department at Brigham Young University where he taught from 1986 to 2019. He is an ASQ-CQE and he has a Masters Degree in Statistics from Rutgers University and a PhD in Applied Statistics from the Polytechnic Institute of N.Y. He worked as a statistician for Johnson & Johnson Corporation from 1971 to 1976, and he worked at FMC Corporation Chemical Division from 1976 to 1986 where he was the Manager of Statistical Services. In industry he used designed experiments and statistical analysis to help engineers and chemists on product development and manufacturing process improvements. At BYU he taught courses on experimental design and quality control and consults with faculty and graduate students involved in research projects through the BYU Center for Statistical Consultation and Collaborative Research. He is the the co-author (with John Erjavec) of Basic Experimental Strategies and Data Analysis for Science and Engineering, CRC Press, the author of Design and Analysis of Experiments with R, CRC Press, and the author of An Introduction to Acceptance Sampling and SPC with R, CRC Press. Additional resources for these books, such as electronic versions of computer code in the books, lecture slides, etc. can be downloaded from: https://lawsonjsl7.netlify.app/webbook/. Additional resources for an earlier book Design and Analysis of Experiments with SAS, CRC Press can be downloaded from: https://sasbook.netlify.com