January – March 2009

Volume 21 • Number 1

Articles

• Monitoring a Drilling Process Using Residual Control Charts
  Authors: Messaoud, Amor; Theis, Winfried; Hering, Franz; Weihs, Claus
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• Economic Evaluation of ISO 2859 Acceptance Sampling Plans Used with Rectifying Inspection of Rejected Lots
  Authors: Nikolaidis, Yiannis; Nenes, George
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• On the Distribution of the Usual Estimator of C_pk and Some Applications in SPC
  Authors: Novoa, Clara; Artiles-Leon, Noel
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• Design and Optimization Aids for Composite Control Charts
  Authors: MacNaughton, David; Coomans, Danny
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• Planning Experiments, the First Real Task in Reaching a Goal
  Authors: Viles, E.; Tanco, M.; Ilzarbe, L.; Alvarez, M. J.
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• Phase I Statistical Process Control Charts: An Overview and Some Results
  Authors: Chakraborti, S.; Human, S. W.; Graham, M. A.
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• An Alternative to the Bivariate Control Chart for Process Dispersion
  Authors: Riaz, Muhammad; Does, Ronald J. M. M.
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• Estimating σ and Improving Control Limits with RWAV for Normal and Non-normal Processes
  Authors: Pan, Xia; Jarrett, Jeffrey E.
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• Log-Normal Versus Gamma Models for Analyzing Data from Quality-Improvement Experiments
  Authors: Das, Rabindra Nath; Lee, Youngjo
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• Evaluating the Series or Parallel Structure Assumption for System Reliability
  Author: Anderson-Cook, Christine M.
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• Evaluating Three DOE Methodologies: Optimization of a Composite Laminate under Fabrication Error
  Authors: Milani, A. S.; Wang, H.; Frey, D. D.; Abeyaratne, R. C.
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• Standards Column
  Author: West, John E. (Jack)
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• Quality Quandaries: Health Care Quality—Reducing the Length of Stay at a Hospital
  Authors: Bisgaard, Soren; Does, Ronald J. M. M.
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