Variable parameters memory-type control charts for simultaneous monitoring of the mean and variability of

Hamed Sabahno1, Marie Eriksson2

  • 1Department of Statistics, Umeå School of Business, Economics and Statistics, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden. hamed.sabahno@umu.se.

Scientific Reports
|April 23, 2024
PubMed

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