A mean deviation-based approach to monitor process variability

Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation

Volumn 79, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1173-1193

  Riaz, Muhammad ^a   Saghir, Aamir ^a  

^a QUAID I AZAM UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Control charts; MD chart; Non normality; Normality; Power curves; R chart; S chart; Simulations

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350191986     PISSN: 00949655     EISSN: 15635163     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00949650802174397     Document Type: Article

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