A comparison study and discussion of the Mahalanobis-Taguchi System

International Journal of Industrial and Systems Engineering

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 631-644

  Bum Kim, Seoung ^a   Tsui, Kwok Leung ^b   Sukchotrat, Thuntee ^a   Chen, Victoria C P ^a  

^a University of Texas at Arlington   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Hotelling's T2; Loss functions; Mahalanobis Taguchi system; MTS; PCA; Principal component analysis; Tree based methods

Indexed keywords

MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

COMPARISON STUDY; HOTELLING; LOSS FUNCTIONS; MAHALANOBIS-TAGUCHI SYSTEMS; MULTIVARIATE STATISTICAL METHOD; PROBABILITY THEORY; STATISTICAL THINKING; TREE-BASED METHODS;

PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

EID: 67650115478     PISSN: 17485037     EISSN: 17485045     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJISE.2009.026768     Document Type: Article

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