I really can’t make this stuff up.

The title of this article is a search term that recently hit The Lean Thinker site. It’s an interesting question—and interesting that it gets asked.

Up until a few years ago, I wasn’t a big fan of run charts. Why not just go ahead and construct a process behavior chart and move on? Well, sometimes a run chart is more appropriate for certain data structures.

The word “kurtosis” sounds like a painful, festering disease of the gums. But the term actually describes the shape of a data distribution.