Research Article

Multichart Schemes for Detecting Changes in Disease Incidence

Table 3

ARLs with their SDRL (in bracket) for the EWMA chart and EWMA multichart with .

Shifts in Average EWMA

1.00201.51 (180.30)200.89 (198.31)199.37 (194.44)200.59 (191.02)201.30 (191.34)
1.2551.92 (35.82)66.89 (63.94)76.04 (76.97)64.95 (58.91)54.83 (44.98)
1.5027.19 (14.17)30.43 (27.86)35.04 (34.94)30.89 (25.66)25.93 (18.08)
1.7518.47 (8.01)17.20 (14.83)19.79 (18.99)18.49 (13.94)16.22 (10.57)
2.0014.05 (5.34)11.10 (8.85)12.25 (11.33)12.47 (8.51)11.30 (7.25)
2.2511.39 (3.98)7.94 (5.98)8.47 (7.62)9.27 (5.86)8.57 (5.49)
2.509.69 (3.15)6.14 (4.36)6.34 (5.45)7.39 (4.32)6.74 (4.36)
2.758.41 (2.63)4.94 (3.15)4.90 (4.04)6.08 (3.27)5.49 (3.53)
3.007.48 (2.23)4.13 (2.58)3.97 (3.17)5.19 (2.66)4.59 (2.93)
3.256.74 (1.96)3.58 (2.16)3.31 (2.48)4.54 (2.20)3.97 (2.48)
3.506.13 (1.75)3.15 (1.81)2.88 (2.05)4.05 (1.87)3.42 (2.08)
ETD12.83711.09112.12112.01610.454
ETDE16.14715.55017.29916.33214.106