A general fuzzy-statistical clustering approach for estimating the time of change in variable sampling control charts

Information Sciences

Volumn 180, Issue 16, 2010, Pages 3033-3044

  Zarandi, Mohammad Hossein Fazel ^a   Alaeddini, Adel ^b  

^a AMIRKABIR UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^b Wayne State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Attribute control charts; Change point estimation; Fuzzy clustering; Fuzzy set theory; Multivariate control charts; Statistical process control (SPC); Variable sampling control charts

Indexed keywords

ATTRIBUTE CONTROL CHARTS; CHANGE-POINTS; MULTIVARIATE CONTROL CHARTS; STATISTICAL PROCESS CONTROL (SPC); VARIABLE SAMPLING;

CONTROL THEORY; ESTIMATION; FLIP FLOP CIRCUITS; FLOWCHARTING; FUZZY CLUSTERING; FUZZY LOGIC; FUZZY SET THEORY; FUZZY SETS; FUZZY SYSTEMS; GRAPHIC METHODS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; QUALITY CONTROL; SAMPLING; SURFACE TREATMENT;

STATISTICAL PROCESS CONTROL;

EID: 78049265793     PISSN: 00200255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ins.2010.04.017     Document Type: Article

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