Skewness Correction X̄ and R Charts for Skewed Distributions

Naval Research Logistics

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 555-573

  Chan, Lai K ^a   Cui, Heng J ^b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Control charts; Shewhart charts; Skewness correction; Statistical process control; Type I risk and Type II risk; X and R control charts

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; POISSON DISTRIBUTION;

SKEWNESS DISTRIBUTIONS;

STATISTICAL PROCESS CONTROL;

EID: 0141494263     PISSN: 0894069X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nav.10077     Document Type: Article

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