On the Charting Procedures: MEWMA Chart and DD-Diagram

Mekki Hajlaoui

Faculté des Sciences Economiques et de Gestion de Mahdia, Université de Monastir, Mahdia, Tunisia.

DOI: 10.4236/ojs.2015.55039                

Abstract

In light of rapid development of customer requirements, control procedures of quality concept use multivariate analysis. This is because of recent advances in information technology and in recording. The charting procedures are based on Mahalanobis distance but their performance needs normality and a type-I error rate choice. The DD-diagram is an alternative scheme that uses data depth to avoid these conditions rarely met in practice. For a given error-free sample, the performance of DD-diagram and that of multivariate EWMA control procedures are compared through a real example on individual observations taken from a multivariate quality process.

Keywords

Multivariate Data, Quality Control, Mahalanobis Distance, MEWMA Chart, Data Depth, DD-Diagram

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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