A multivariate robust control chart for individual observations

Journal of Quality Technology

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 259-271

  Chenouri, Shoja'eddin ^a   Steiner, Stefan H ^a   Variyath, Asokan Mulayath ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

Author keywords

Hotelling's T2; Multivariate robust estimation of location and scatter; Multivariate statistical process control; Outliers; Reweighted minimum covariance determinant estimators

Indexed keywords

CONTROL CHARTS; COVARIANCE MATRIX; FLOWCHARTING; MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS; ROBUST CONTROL; STATISTICAL PROCESS CONTROL;

HOTELLING'S T; MINIMUM COVARIANCE DETERMINANT; MULTIVARIATE STATISTICAL PROCESS CONTROL; OUTLIERS; ROBUST ESTIMATION;

PROCESS CONTROL;

EID: 68249086907     PISSN: 00224065     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00224065.2009.11917781     Document Type: Article

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