Research Article

Multichart Schemes for Detecting Changes in Disease Incidence

Table 1

ARLs with their SDRL (in bracket) for the CUSUM and multi-CUSUM chart with .

Shifts in Average CUSUM

1.00202.53 (192.35)204.21 (203.3)203.86 (202.29)203.53 (199.31)200.91 (194.15)
1.2545.44 (37.36)51.29 (46.61)58.45 (56.17)51.73 (46.71)48.11 (41.63)
1.5020.64 (14.18)21.77 (18.01)24.25 (21.58)22.22 (17.92)20.90 (15.07)
1.7512.79 (8.96)12.67 (8.70)13.50 (10.94)12.99 (9.53)12.61 (7.75)
2.009.17 (6.71)8.71 (4.92)8.95 (5.62)8.94 (5.75)8.85 (5.44)
2.257.26 (4.05)6.59 (3.89)6.71 (3.65)6.85 (3.86)6.74 (3.98)
2.506.03 (3.08)5.41 (2.98)5.25 (2.91)5.56 (2.99)5.47 (3.01)
2.755.15 (2.55)4.51 (2.37)4.29 (2.31)4.65 (2.41)4.60 (2.50)
3.004.47 (2.12)3.93 (2.06)3.72 (1.94)4.04 (2.04)3.91 (1.98)
3.254.01 (1.77)3.51 (1.73)3.27 (1.64)3.60 (1.71)3.45 (1.69)
3.503.59 (1.49)3.15 (1.44)2.92 (1.41)3.22 (1.45)3.07 (1.42)
ETD8.9718.8989.3899.0868.692
ETDE11.85512.15413.13112.38011.771