Robustness of the EWMA control chart for individual observations

Journal of Applied Statistics

Volumn 38, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 2071-2087

  Human, S W ^a   Kritzinger, P ^a   Chakraborti, S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Average run length; Boxplot; Distribution free; Median run length; Non parametric; Percentile; Run length; Simulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860388923     PISSN: 02664763     EISSN: 13600532     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02664763.2010.545114     Document Type: Article

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