Capability indices for non-normal data

Quality Engineering

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 489-495

  McCormack Jr , D W ^a,e   Harris, Ian R ^b   Hurwitz, Arnon M ^c,f,g   Spagon, Patrick D ^d,g,h  

^a SEMATECH   (United States)

^b NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Qualtech Productivity S   (South Africa)

^d MOTOROLA INC   (United States)

^e AMERICAN STATISTICAL ASSOCIATION   (United States)

^f Qualtech Productivity Solutions   (South Africa)

^g American Society for Quality   (India)

^h Motorola University   (United States)

Author keywords

Non Normal processes; Nonparametric process capability indices; Process capability

Indexed keywords

EID: 1642500704     PISSN: 08982112     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08982110008962614     Document Type: Article

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