Signal probabilities of runs rules supplementing a Shewheart control chart

Communications in Statistics Part B: Simulation and Computation

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 1347-1360

  Champ, Charles W ^a   Woodall, William H ^b  

^a GEORGIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Average run length; Markov chain

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; PROBABILITY; PROCESS CONTROL; QUALITY CONTROL;

AVERAGE RUN LENGTH; SHEWHART CONTROL CHARTS;

MARKOV PROCESSES;

EID: 0031273030     PISSN: 03610918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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