Acknowledgments
Finally, we would like to thank the authors, and the editors, for the opportunity to comment.
Funding
We would like express our appreciation of the support of NNSF of China, Grant 11771332.
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Notes on contributors
Xuemin Zi
Xuemin Zi is Professor of the School of Science at Tianjin University of Technology and Education. Her research interests include statistical process control and design of experiments.
Changliang Zou
Changliang Zou is Professor of the Institute of Statistics at the Nankai University. He has authored over 90 refereed journal publication in Statistics and Industrial Engineering, such as Journal of the American Statistical Association, Annals of Statistics, Biometrika, Technometrics, Journal of Quality Technology, Naval Reserch Logisitics, and IIE Transactions. He currently serves as an associate editor of Technometrics and Statistica Sinica, and is on the editorial board of the Journal of Quality Technology.