A distribution-free Shewhart quality control chart based on signed-ranks

Quality Engineering

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 613-623

  Bakir, Saad T ^a  

^a ALABAMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Average run length; Control sequence; False alarm rate; Nonparametric; Outliers; Robustness; Wilcoxon signed rank statistic

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA REDUCTION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); STATISTICAL PROCESS CONTROL; STATISTICAL TESTS; SYSTEM STABILITY; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

AVERAGE RUN LENGTH; CONTROL SEQUENCE; DISTRIBUTION FREE TEST STATISTICS; FALSE ALARM RATE; NULL DISTRIBUTION; SHEWHART QUALITY CONTROL CHART; WILCOXON SIGNED RANK STATISTIC;

QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 4344710720     PISSN: 03639045     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1081/QEN-120038022     Document Type: Article

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