Research Article

A Nonparametric Shewhart-Type Quality Control Chart for Monitoring Broad Changes in a Process Distribution

Table 6

ARLs (in groups of size 10) of the Two-sided Shew-XB and the Shew-KS Charts under a Cauchy distribution. Training Sample Size 𝑚 = 3 9 and Test Sample is of Size 𝑛 = 1 0 .

Shew-XBShew-KS
𝑘 = 6 . 7 0 𝐶 𝐿 = 0 . 5 4 1

Median = 0.0 1 7 1 . 0 1 7 1 . 0
0 . 2 1 6 5 . 1 3 8 . 7
0 . 4 1 6 5 . 1 3 . 2
0 . 6 1 6 1 . 2 1 . 4
0 . 8 1 6 0 . 5 1 . 1
1 . 0 1 5 9 . 4 1 . 0

Note: for the Shew-XB chart, 6.70 is the “k” value in the control limits 𝑋 0 ± 𝑘 𝑆 0 / 𝑛 .