A Distribution-Free phase I control chart for subgroup scale

Journal of Quality Technology

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 373-387

  Jones Farmer, L Allison ^a   Champ, Charles W ^b  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GEORGIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Nonparametric; Retrospective; Shewhart Chart; Statistical Process Control

Indexed keywords

CONTROL CHARTS; FLOWCHARTING; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; STATISTICAL PROCESS CONTROL;

DISTRIBUTED PROCESS; DISTRIBUTION-FREE; NON-NORMAL DATA; NON-PARAMETRIC; NORMAL MODEL; PROCESS LOCATION; PROCESS VARIABILITY; RETROSPECTIVE;

PROCESS CONTROL;

EID: 79951921294     PISSN: 00224065     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00224065.2010.11917834     Document Type: Article

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