EWMA control charts for monitoring high-yield processes based on non-transformed observations

International Journal of Production Research

Volumn 46, Issue 20, 2008, Pages 5679-5699

  Yeh, Arthur B ^a   McGrath, Richard N ^a   Sembower, Mark A ^b   Shen, Qi ^c  

^a BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PINNEY ASSOCIATES   (United States)

^c Nationwide Insurance ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Average number of items sampled; Bernoulli counts; Binomial counts; Geometric counts

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE NUMBER OF ITEMS SAMPLED; BERNOULLI COUNTS; BINOMIAL COUNTS; CUMULATIVE SUM CHARTS; CUSUM CONTROL CHARTS; EFFICIENT CONTROLS; EWMA CONTROLS; EXPONENTIALLY WEIGHTED MOVING AVERAGE CONTROL CHARTS; GEOMETRIC COUNTS; HIGH YIELDS; OUT-OF-CONTROL SIGNALS; PERFORMANCE COMPARISONS; SMOOTHING CONSTANTS;

FLOWCHARTING; GRAPHIC METHODS;

PROCESS CONTROL;

EID: 65249096695     PISSN: 00207543     EISSN: 1366588X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00207540601182252     Document Type: Article

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