W. Edwards Deming

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  William Edwards Deming (October 14, 1900 – December 20, 1993) was an American engineer, statistician, professor, author, lecturer, and management consultant. Educated initially as an electrical engineer and later specializing in mathematical physics, he helped develop the sampling techniques still used today by the U.S. Department of Census and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. In his book, The New Economics for Industry, Government, and Education, Deming championed the work of Walter Shewhart who used techniques such as: 

• Statistical process control.
• Operational definitions.
• What Deming called the "Shewhart Cycle" which would later evolve into the PDCA and PDSA cycles we know today.  

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