Nonparametric control charts: An overview and some results

Journal of Quality Technology

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 304-315

  Chakraborti, S ^a   Van Der Laan, P ^b   Bakir, S T ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

^b EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c ALABAMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Change point; Cumulative sum control charts; Distribution free procedures; Exponentially weighted moving average control charts; Shewhart control charts

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; QUALITY CONTROL; RANDOM PROCESSES; STATISTICAL METHODS; STATISTICS;

AVERAGE RUN LENGTH; CHANGE POINT; CUMULATIVE SUM CONTROL CHARTS; DISTRIBUTION-FREE CONTROL CHARTS; EXPONENTIALLY WEIGHTED MOVING AVERAGE CONTROL CHARTS; NONPARAMETRIC CONTROL CHARTS; SHEWHART CONTROL CHARTS;

STATISTICAL PROCESS CONTROL;

EID: 0042401516     PISSN: 00224065     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00224065.2001.11980081     Document Type: Article

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