The Generally Weighted Moving Average Control Chart for Detecting Small Shifts in the Process Mean

Quality Engineering

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 209-231

  Sheu, Shey Huei ^a   Lin, Tse Chieh ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Average run length; Exponentially weighted moving average; Generally weighted moving average; Robustness; Runs rules; Weighted moving averages

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOWCHARTING; PROBABILITY; PRODUCTION; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); STATISTICAL METHODS;

AVERAGE RUN LENGTH; EXPONENTIALLY WEIGHTED MOVING AVERAGE; GENERALLY WEIGHTED MOVING AVERAGE; RUNS RULES; WEIGHTED MOVING AVERAGES;

PROCESS CONTROL;

EID: 1442282636     PISSN: 08982112     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1081/QEN-120024009     Document Type: Article

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