Control charts as a tool for data quality control

Journal of Official Statistics

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 167-191

  Pierchala, Carl E ^a   Surti, Jyoti ^a  

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Author keywords

Data quality assurance; Data quality improvement; Hierarchical data; Motor vehicle traffic safety data; Nonindependent observations; Nonrandomly missing data; Statistical process control

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950744932     PISSN: 0282423X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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