Robust analysis of variance: process design and quality improvement

International Journal of Productivity and Quality Management

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 306-319

  Giloni, Avi ^a   Seshadri, Sridhar ^b   Simonoff, Jeffrey S ^b  

^a YESHIVA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

ANOVA; LAD regression; M estimator; median; outlier; quality engineering; robust design; robust statistics; signal to noise ratio; Taguchi

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548286079     PISSN: 17466474     EISSN: 17466482     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJPQM.2006.008480     Document Type: Article

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