The X̄ control chart under non-normality

Quality and Reliability Engineering International

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 167-176

  Schoonhoven, Marit ^a   Does, Ronald J M M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Average run length; Non normal; Percentiles; Relative efficiency; Standard deviation

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE RUN LENGTHS; BEST CHOICE; CONTROL CHARTS; CONTROL LIMITS; DESIGN SCHEME; IN-CONTROL; NON-NORMALITY; OUT-OF-CONTROL; RELATIVE EFFICIENCY; RUN LENGTH DISTRIBUTION; STANDARD DEVIATION;

ESTIMATION; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); STATISTICS;

FLOWCHARTING;

EID: 77949534027     PISSN: 07488017     EISSN: 10991638     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qre.1029     Document Type: Conference Paper

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