The EWMA control chart: Properties and comparison with other quality- control procedures by computer simulation

Clinical Chemistry

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 594-601

  Neubauer, Aljoscha Steffen ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

exponentially weighted moving average; Shewhart chart, Westgard algorithm compared; statistics

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; AVERAGE; CLINICAL CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; QUALITY CONTROL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0030911895     PISSN: 00099147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/clinchem/43.4.594     Document Type: Article

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