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Journal of Quality Technology
A Quarterly Journal of Methods, Applications and Related Topics
Volume 36, 2004 - Issue 3
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EWMA Charts for Monitoring the Mean of Censored Weibull Lifetimes

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Pages 321-328 | Published online: 16 Feb 2018
 

Abstract

A lower-sided and an upper-sided exponentially weighted moving average (EWMA) chart for detecting mean changes (decreases and increases) in processes characterized by Weibull distributions are developed in this paper when censoring occurs at a fixed level. We show that the lower-sided EWMA chart performs better than its counterpart, the Shewhart-type; that a Shewhart-type chart is not appropriate to detect mean increases when the censoring rate is high; and that the upper-sided EWMA chart works well in detecting mean increases.

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Notes on contributors

Lingyun Zhang

Dr. Zhang is a postdoctoral fellow in the Institute of Information Sciences and Technology. His email address is [email protected].

Gemai Chen

Dr. Chen is a Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics. He is a member of ASQ. His email address is [email protected].

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