A process capability index with reliable confidence intervals

Communications in Statistics Part B: Simulation and Computation

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 235-245

  Luceño, Alberto ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTABRIA   (Spain)

^b University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

Author keywords

Central limit theorem; Nonconforming items; Nonnormal variability; Robustness; Standard error

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001579658     PISSN: 03610918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03610919608813310     Document Type: Article

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