Approximate confidence limits for Cpk and confidence limits for non-normal process capabilities

Quality Engineering

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 635-640

  Levinson, William A ^a,b,c  

^a INTERSIL CORPORATION   (United States)

^b National Center for Health Statistics   (United States)

^c ASQC   (United States)

Author keywords

Confidence limit; Non normal distribution; Noncentral t distribution; Process capability; Tolerance interval

Indexed keywords

EID: 0012674307     PISSN: 08982112     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08982119708919085     Document Type: Article

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