A new EWMA chart for monitoring process dispersion

Journal of Quality Technology

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 319-331

  Shu, Lianjie ^a,c   Jiang, Wei ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MACAU   (Macao)

^b STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c Faculty of Business Administration

^d Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management ^*

Author keywords

Average run length; Gamma distribution; Markov chain; Statistical process control; Variance

Indexed keywords

DISPERSIONS; MARKOV PROCESSES; STATISTICAL PROCESS CONTROL;

AVERAGE RUN LENGTHS; EXPONENTIALLY WEIGHTED MOVING AVERAGE CONTROL CHARTS; GAMMA DISTRIBUTION; LOGARITHMIC TRANSFORMATIONS; MONITORING PROCESS; NORMALIZING TRANSFORMATION; PROCESS DISPERSION; VARIANCE;

CONTROL CHARTS;

EID: 47149093171     PISSN: 00224065     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00224065.2008.11917737     Document Type: Article

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