Design schemes for the X̄ control chart

Quality and Reliability Engineering International

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 581-594

  Schoonhoven, Marit ^a   Riaz, Muhammad ^b   Does, Ronald J M M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b QUAID I AZAM UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Average run length; Percentiles; Relative efficiency; Run length distribution; Standard deviation

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE RUN LENGTH; PERCENTILES; RELATIVE EFFICIENCY; RUN LENGTH DISTRIBUTION; STANDARD DEVIATION;

FLOWCHARTING; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); STANDARDS;

STATISTICS;

EID: 67749106172     PISSN: 07488017     EISSN: 10991638     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qre.991     Document Type: Article

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