A distribution-free multivariate Phase I location control chart for subgrouped data from elliptical distributions

Technometrics

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 528-538

  Bell, Richard C ^a   Jones Farmer, L Allison ^b   Billor, Nedret ^b  

^a Department of the Army ^*  (United States)

^b AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Data depth; Mahalanobis depth; Mean rank chart; Nonparametric; Outliers; Retrospective analysis; Robust estimators

Indexed keywords

CONTROL CHARTS; FLOWCHARTING; MONTE CARLO METHODS;

DATA DEPTH; MAHALANOBIS; MEAN-RANKS; NON-PARAMETRIC; OUTLIERS; RETROSPECTIVE ANALYSIS; ROBUST ESTIMATORS;

QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 84918570849     PISSN: 00401706     EISSN: 15372723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00401706.2013.879264     Document Type: Article

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