References
- Beazley, C. E. and Marcucci, M. D. (1988). “Capability Indices: Process Performance Measures”, ASQC Quality Congress Transactions, pp. 516–523.
- Bissell, A. F. (1990). “How Reliable is Your Capability Index?”. Applied Statistics 39, pp. 331–340.
- Boyles, R. A. (1991). “The Taguchi Capability Index”. Journal of Quality Technology 23, pp. 107–126.
- Chambers, J. M.; Cleveland, W. S.; Kleiner, B.; and Tukey, P. A. (1983). Graphical Methods for Data Analysis. Duxbury Press. Boston, MA.
- Chan, L. K.; Cheng, S. W.; and Spiring, F. A. (1988). “A New Measure of Process Capability: Cpm”. Journal of Quality Technology 30, pp. 162–175.
- Chan, L. K.; Cheng, S. W.; and Spiring, F. A. (1990). “A Multivariate Measure of Process Capability”. Journal of Modeling and Simulation 11, pp. 1–6.
- Chan, L. K.; Xiong, Z.; and Zhang, D. (1990). “On the Asymptotic Distributions of Some Process Capability Indices”. Communications in Statistics—Theory and Methods. 19, pp. 11–18.
- Chou, Y. and Owen, D. B. (1989). “On the Distribution of the Estimated Process Capability Indices”. Communications in Statistics—Theory and Methods 18, pp. 4549–4560.
- Chou, Y.; Owen, D. B.; and Borrego, S. A. (1990). “Lower Confidence Limits on Process Capability Indices”. Journal of Quality Technology 22, pp. 223–229.
- Clements, J. A. (1989). “Process Capability Calculations for Non-Normal Distributions”. Quality Progress 22, pp. 98–100.
- D'Agostino, R. B. and Stephens, M. A. (editors) (1986). Goodness-of-Fit Techniques. Marcel Dekker, Inc., New York, NY.
- Diaconis, P. and Efron, B. (1983). “Computer-Intensive Methods in Statistics”. Scientific American 248(5), pp. 116–130.
- Efron, B. and Tibshirani, R. (1986). “Bootstrap Methods for Standard Errors, Confidence Intervals, and Other Measures of Statistical Accuracy”. Statistical Science 1, pp. 54–77.
- Ekvall, D. N. and Juran, J. M. (1974). “Manufacturing Planning” in Quality Control Handbook, Third Edition, (J. M. Juran, ed.). McGraw-Hill, New York, NY.
- Eubank, R. L. (1988). Spline Smoothing and Nonparametric Regression. Marcel Dekker, Inc., New York, NY.
- Fowlkes, E. B. (1987). A Folio of Distributions: A Collection of Theoretical Quantile-Quantile Plots. Marcel Dekker, Inc., New York, NY.
- Franklin, L. A. and Wasserman, G. (1991). “Bootstrap Confidence Interval Estimates of Cpk: An Introduction”. Communications in Statistics-Simulation and Computation 20(1), pp. 231–242.
- Franklin, L. A. and Wasserman, G. S. (1992a). “A Note on the Conservative Nature of the Tables of Lower Confidence Limits for Cpk With a Suggested Correction”. Communications in Statistics—Simulation and Computation, to appear.
- Franklin, L. A. and Wasserman, G. S. (1992b). “Bootstrap Lower Confidence Limits for Capability Indices”, Journal of Quality Technology 24, pp. 196–210.
- Guirguis, G. H. and Rodriguez, R. N. (1992). “Computation of Owen's Q Function With Applications to Process Capability Analysis”, Journal of Quality Technology 24, pp. 236–246.
- Gunter, B. (1989). “The Use and Abuse of Cpk: Parts 1–4”. Quality Progress, January 1989, pp. 72–73; March 1989, pp. 108–109; May 1989, pp. 79–80; July 1989, pp. 86–87. Also see “The Use and Abuse of Cpk Revisited”, January 1991, pp. 90–94.
- Gunter, B. (1991–1992). “Bootstrapping: How to Make Something From Almost Nothing and Get Statistically Valid Answers”. Quality Progress, December 1991, pp. 97–103; February 1992, pp. 83–86; April 1992, pp. 119–122; June 1992, pp. 79–83.
- Hsiang, T. C. and Taguchi, G. (1985). “A Tutorial on Quality Control and Assurance—The Taguchi Methods”. Unpublished presentation given at the Annual Meetings of the American Statistical Association, Las Vegas, NV.
- Johnson, N. L.; Kotz, S.; and Pearn, W. L. (1992). “Flexible Process Capability Indices”. Institute of Statistics Mimeo Series, No. 2072. Department of Statistics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC.
- Johnson, T. (1992). “The Relationship of Cpm to Squared Error Loss”, Journal of Quality Technology 24, pp. 211–215.
- Kane, V. E. (1986). “Process Capability Indices”. Journal of Quality Technology 18, pp. 41–52. Corrigenda p. 265.
- Kitska, D. (1991). Letter to the Editor, Quality Progress, March 1991, p. 8.
- Kotz, S.; Pearn, W. L.; and Johnson, N. L. (1993). “Some Process Capability Indicators Are More Reliable Than One Might Think (A Comment on Bissell (1990))”. Applied Statistics, to appear.
- Kushler, R. H. and Hurley, P. (1992). “Confidence Bounds for Capability Indices”. Journal of Quality Technology 24, pp. 188–195.
- Lupienski, J. A. (1989). “Taguchi Quality Loss Function and Its Relationship to Process Capability Centering (Cpk)”, Forty-fifth Annual ASQC Quality Control Conference Transactions—Rochester Section.
- Owen, D. B. (1965). “A special case of a bivariate non-central t-distribution”. Biometrika 52, pp. 437–446.
- Pearn, W. L.; Kotz, S.; and Johnson, N. L. (1992). “Distributional and Inferential Properties of Process Capability Indices”. Journal of Quality Technology 24, pp. 216–231.
- Porter, L. J. and Oakland, J. S. (1990). “Measuring Process Capability Using Indices—Some New Considerations”. Quality and Reliability Engineering International 6, pp. 19–27.
- Porter, L. J. and Oakland, J. S. (1991). “Process Capability Indices—An Overview of Theory and Practice”. Quality and Reliability Engineering International 7, pp. 437–448.
- Rodriguez, R. N. (1983). “Systems of Frequency Curves” in Encyclopedia of Statistical Sciences, Vol. 3. (S. Kotz and N. L. Johnson, eds.) pp. 212–225.
- Rodriguez, R. N. (1986). “Some Graphical Methods for Analyzing Data in Statistical Quality Control Applications”. Journal of the Japanese Society for Quality Control 16, pp. 55–65. In Japanese.
- Silverman, B. W. (1986). Density Estimation for Statistics and Data Analysis. Chapman and Hall, New York, NY.
- Steenburgh, T. J. (1989). “A Method to Study Process Capability for Manufacturing Strike Teams”. Unpublished Xerox Corporation technical report.
- Steenburgh, T. J. (1990). “Process Capability Indices for Targets”. Unpublished Xerox Corporation technical report.
- Terrell, G. R. and Scott, D. W. (1985). “Oversmoothed Non-parametric Density Estimation”. Journal of the American Statistical Association 80, pp. 209–214.
- Van Zwet, W. (1992). “Resampling”. Wald Memorial Lectures presented at the Annual Meeting of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. Annals of Statistics, to appear.
- Wasserman, G. S.; Mohsen, H. A.; and Franklin, L. A. (1991). “A Program to Calculate Bootstrap Confidence Intervals for the Process Capability Index, Cpk”. Communications in Statistics—Simulation and Computation 20, pp. 497–510.
- Wasserman, G. S. and Franklin, L. A. (1992). “Standard Bootstrap Confidence Interval Estimates of Cpk.” Computers and Industrial Engineering 22(2), pp. 171–176.
- Zhang, N. F.; Stenback, G. A.; and Wardrop, D. M. (1990). “Interval Estimation of Process Capability Index Cpk”. Communications in Statistics—Theory and Methods 19, pp. 4455–4470.