Non-normal populations in quality applications: A revisited perspective

Quality and Reliability Engineering International

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 375-382

  Shore, Haim ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Distribution fitting; Moment matching; Non normal populations; Process capability analysis; Statistical process control

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; DATA REDUCTION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PROBLEM SOLVING; RELIABILITY THEORY; STATISTICAL PROCESS CONTROL;

DISTRIBUTION FITTING; MOMENT-MATCHING; NON-NORMAL POPULATIONS; PROCESS CAPABILITY ANALYSIS;

QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 2942726229     PISSN: 07488017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qre.569     Document Type: Review

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