A phase I nonparametric Shewhart-type control chart based on the median

Journal of Applied Statistics

Volumn 37, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1795-1813

  Graham, M A ^a   Human, S W ^a   Chakraborti, S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Distribution free; False alarm probability; False alarm rate; Multivariate hypergeometric; Prospective; Retrospective

Indexed keywords

EID: 77958536888     PISSN: 02664763     EISSN: 13600532     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02664760903164913     Document Type: Article

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