Control charts based on medians

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series D: The Statistician

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 19-31

  Janacek, G J ^a   Meikle, S E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^b British Aluminium Extrusions   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Control charts; Medians; Non normality; Order statistics; Statistical process control

Indexed keywords

EID: 0345983404     PISSN: 00390526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9884.00056     Document Type: Article

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