Robustness of the EWMA control chart to non-normality

Journal of Quality Technology

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 309-316

  Borror, Connie M ^a   Montgomery, Douglas C ^a   Runger, George C ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MONITORING; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; PROCESS ENGINEERING; STATISTICAL PROCESS CONTROL;

AVERAGE RUN LENGTH (ARL); EXPONENTIALLY WEIGHTED MOVING AVERAGE CHARTS; HEAVY-TAILED SYMMETRIC NON-NORMAL DISTRIBUTIONS; SHEWHART CONTROL CHARTS;

QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 0033154342     PISSN: 00224065     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00224065.1999.11979929     Document Type: Article

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