Design and analysis of control charts for standard deviation with estimated parameters

Journal of Quality Technology

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 307-333

  Schoonhoven, Marit ^a   Riaz, Muhammad ^b,c   Does, Ronald J M M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS   (Saudi Arabia)

^c QUAID I AZAM UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Average run length; Mean squared error; Phase I; Phase II; Robust; Shewhart control chart; Statistical process control

Indexed keywords

CONTROL CHARTS; FLOWCHARTING; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PROCESS MONITORING; STATISTICAL PROCESS CONTROL; STATISTICS;

AVERAGE RUN LENGTHS; MEAN SQUARED ERROR; PHASE I; PHASE II; ROBUST; SHEWHART CONTROL CHARTS;

PROCESS CONTROL;

EID: 84857539659     PISSN: 00224065     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00224065.2011.11917867     Document Type: Article

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