Progressive Variance Control Charts for Monitoring Process Dispersion

Raja Fawad Zafar, Nasir Abbas, Muhammad Riaz and Zawar Hussain

Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods, 2014, vol. 43, issue 23, 4893-4907

Abstract: In a process, the deviation from location or scale parameters affects the quality of the process and waste resources. So it is essential to monitor such processes for possible changes due to any assignable causes. Control charts are the most famous tool used to meet this intention. It is useless to monitor process location until the assurance that process dispersion is in-control. This study proposes some new two-sided memory control charts named as progressive variance (PV) control charts which are based on sample variance to monitor changes in process dispersion assuming normality of quality characteristic to be monitored. Simulation studies are made, and an example is discussed to evaluate the performance of the proposed charts. The comparison of the proposed chart is made with exponentially weighted moving average- and cumulative sum-type charts for process dispersion. The study shows that performance of the proposed charts are uniformly better than its competitors for detecting positive shifts while for detecting negative shift in the variance their performance is better for small shifts and reasonably good for moderated shifts.

Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1080/03610926.2012.717668

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