Run length, average run length and false alarm rate of shewhart x-bar chart: Exact derivations by conditioning

Communications in Statistics Part B: Simulation and Computation

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 61-81

  Chakraborti, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

Author keywords

ARL; Control chart; FAR; Process control; Signal; Type I error

Indexed keywords

EID: 31244434624     PISSN: 03610918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03610910008813602     Document Type: Article

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