A bootstrap control chart for Birnbaum-Saunders percentiles

Quality and Reliability Engineering International

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 585-600

  Lio, Y L ^a   Park, Chanseok ^b  

^a W O Farber Center for Civic Leadership   (United States)

^b CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Average run length; Birnbaum saunders distribution; Control charts; False alarm rate; Percentile; Shewhart chart; Statistical process control; Tensile strength

Indexed keywords

ALUMINA; CUSTOMER SATISFACTION; FLOWCHARTING; LIGHT METALS; MISSILES; MONTE CARLO METHODS; POPULATION STATISTICS; PROBLEM SOLVING; PROCESS MONITORING; QUALITY ASSURANCE; QUALITY CONTROL; QUALITY FUNCTION DEPLOYMENT; STRENGTH OF MATERIALS; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

AVERAGE RUN LENGTH; BIRNBAUM-SAUNDERS DISTRIBUTION; BREAKING STRESS; CONTROL CHARTS; FALSE ALARM RATE; ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLES; MONTE-CARLO SIMULATIONS; PARAMETRIC BOOTSTRAP; PERCENTILE; PROCESS MEASUREMENTS; QUALITY CHARACTERISTICS; SHEWHART CHART; STATISTICAL PROCESS CONTROL; TENSILE STRENGTH;

PROCESS ENGINEERING;

EID: 49749152821     PISSN: 07488017     EISSN: 10991638     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qre.924     Document Type: Article

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