Control charts for health care monitoring under overdispersion

Metrika

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 67-83

  Albers, Willem ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Average run length; Estimated parameters; Geometric charts; Heterogeneity; High quality processes; Statistical process control

Indexed keywords

EID: 79957454419     PISSN: 00261335     EISSN: 1435926X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00184-009-0290-z     Document Type: Article

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