Control limits for p control charts with small subgroup sizes

Quality Management in Health Care

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 123-129

  Hart, Marilyn K ^a   Hart, Robert F ^a   Schmaltz, Stephen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN OSHKOSH   (United States)

^b DIVISION OF RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Binomial limits; p charts; Small subgroup sizes; Statistical process control

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HOSPITAL DEPARTMENT; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; SURGERY; TIME;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PROBABILITY; SMALL-AREA ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTIONS; SURGERY DEPARTMENT, HOSPITAL; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 34248392657     PISSN: 10638628     EISSN: 15505154     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.QMH.0000267449.32629.b1     Document Type: Review

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