Quality loss functions for nonnegative variables and their applications

Journal of Quality Technology

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 129-138

  Joseph, V Roshan ^a,b  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Sch of Indust/Systems Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Performance Measure; Quality Engineering; Robust Parameter Design

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; MULTIVARIABLE CONTROL SYSTEMS; NUMERICAL METHODS; PERFORMANCE; PROBLEM SOLVING; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS);

PERFORMANCE MEASURES; QUALITY ENGINEERING; QUALITY LOSS FUNCTIONS; ROBUST PARAMETER DESIGN;

QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 1542640524     PISSN: 00224065     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00224065.2004.11980260     Document Type: Article

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