Estimating capability index Cpk for processes with asymmetric tolerances

Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods

Volumn 29, Issue 11, 2000, Pages 2593-2604

  Pearn, W L ^a   Lin, G H ^b  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL PENGHU UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Process capability index; Process mean; Process standard deviation; Specification limit

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001656287     PISSN: 03610926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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