Frontiers in Statistical Quality Control 9 (eBook)

Editorial 6
Contents 10
Author Index 12
Part I On-line Control - Control Charts 17
Control Charting Normal Variance – Reflections, Curiosities, and Recommendations 18
Adaptive Charting Techniques: Literature Review and Extensions 34
Multivariate Monitoring of the Process Mean and Variability Using Combinations of Shewhart and MEWMA Control Charts 51
Quality Control of Manufactured Surfaces 69
Statistical Process Control for Semiconductor Manufacturing Processes 85
The MAX-CUSUM Chart 99
Sequential Signals on a Control Chart Based on Nonparametric Statistical Tests 113
On the Application of SPC in Finance 132
Part II On-line Control - Surveillance Sampling and Sampling Plans 144
Surveillance Sampling and Sampling Plans 144
Principles for Multivariate Surveillance 145
Research Issues and Ideas on Health-Related Surveillance 157
Surveillance Sampling Schemes 168
Selective Assembly for Maximizing Profit in the Presence and Absence of Measurement Error 183
A New Approach to Bayesian Sampling Plans 201
Part III Off-line Control 217
Stochastic Modelling as a Tool for Quality Assessment and Quality Improvement Illustrated by Means of Nuclear Fuel Assemblies 218
Hierarchical Modeling for Monitoring Defects 233
Conformance Analysis of P opulation Means under Restricted Stratified Sampling 245
Data Quality Control Based on Metric Data Models 270
The Sensitivity of Common Capability Indices to Departures from Normality 284
A Note on the Estimation of Restricted Scale Parameters of Gamma Distributions 301
Attractive Quality and Must-be Quality from the Viewpoint of Environmental Lifestyle in Japan 321
On Identifying Dispersion Effects in Unreplicated Fractional Factorial Experiments 334
Evaluating Adaptive Paired Comparison Experiments 345
Approximated Interval Estimation in the Staggered Nested Designs for Precision Experiments 355