Multivariate Quality Control

Camil Fuchs, Ron S. Kanett

Quality control with multivariate data; the multivariate normal distribution in quality control; quality control with externally assigned targets; quality control with internal targets - multivariate process capability studies; quality control with targets from a reference sample; analyzing data with multivariate control charts; detection of out-of-control characteristics; the statistical tolerance regions approach; multivariate quality control with units in batches; applications of principal components; additional graphical techniques for multivariate quality control; implementing multivariate quality control; appendix 1 - MINITAB (TM) macros for multivariate quality control; appendix 2 - the data from case studies; appendix 3 - review of matrix algebra for statistics with MINIATB (TM) computations.