A one-sided MEWMA chartfor health surveillance

Quality and Reliability Engineering International

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 503-518

  Joner Jr , Michael D ^a,d   Woodall, William H ^b   Reynolds Jr , Marion R ^b   Fricker Jr , Ronald D ^c  

^a PROCTER AND GAMBLE COMPANY   (United States)

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

^c NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL   (United States)

^d NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Disease surveillance; Monitoring; Multivariate statistical process control; One sided control charts; Spatial correlation

Indexed keywords

CUSTOMER SATISFACTION; DISEASE CONTROL; MONITORING; PROBLEM SOLVING; QUALITY ASSURANCE; QUALITY FUNCTION DEPLOYMENT; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

AVERAGE RUN- LENGTH; COUNT RATES; CUMULATIVE SUM CHART; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; EFFICIENT MONITORING; INCIDENCE RATE; MULTIVARIATE EXPONENTIALLY WEIGHTED MOVING AVERAGE; MULTIVARIATE MONITORING; MULTIVARIATE STATISTICAL PROCESS CONTROL; ONE-SIDED CONTROL CHARTS; RATE INCREASES; SPATIAL CORRELATION; STATISTICAL PERFORMANCES; UNIVARIATE;

QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 49749137081     PISSN: 07488017     EISSN: 10991638     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qre.910     Document Type: Article

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