Performance metrics for surveillance schemes

Quality Engineering

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 451-464

  Fraker, Shannon E ^a   Woodall, William H ^a   Mousavi, Shabnam ^b  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Average time to signal; CUSUM chart; EWMA chart; Markov dependent process; Recurrence interval; ROC curve; Sensitivity; Specificity

Indexed keywords

ALARM SYSTEMS; CONTROL THEORY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GRAPHIC METHODS; HEALTH; PROCESS ENGINEERING; PROCESS MONITORING; PRODUCTION CONTROL; SIGNALING; STATISTICAL METHODS; STATISTICAL PROCESS CONTROL;

AVERAGE TIME-TO-SIGNAL; CUMULATIVE SUM CHARTS; CUSUM CHART; EWMA CHART; EXPONENTIALLY WEIGHTED MOVING AVERAGE CHARTS; FALSE ALARMS; FIXED LENGTH; IN-CONTROL; INDUSTRIAL PROCESS MONITORING; INITIAL STATES; MARKOV DEPENDENT PROCESS; PERFORMANCE METRICS; PUBLIC HEALTH; RECURRENCE INTERVAL; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY; SIGNAL PROPERTIES; SIGNALING PROCESSES; SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL PERFORMANCES; TIME PERIODS;

PROCESS CONTROL;

EID: 46249110356     PISSN: 08982112     EISSN: 15324222     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08982110701810444     Document Type: Review

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