On ARL-unbiased control charts
Knoth, S.; Morais, M. C.
Frontiers in Statistical Quality Control (Vol. 11), (2015), 95-117
http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-12355-4_7
Manufacturing processes are usually monitored by making use of control charts for variables or attributes. Controlling both increases and decreases in a parameter, by using a control statistic with an asymmetrical distribution, frequently leads to an ARL-biased chart, in the sense that some out-of-control average run length (ARL) values are larger than the in-control ARL, i.e., it takes longer to detect some shifts in the parameter than to trigger a false alarm.
In this paper, we are going to:
- explore what Pignatiello et al. (4th Industrial Engineering Research Conference, 1995) and Acosta-Mejía et al. (J Qual Technol 32:89–102, 2000) aptly called an ARL-unbiased chart;
- provide instructive illustrations of ARL-(un)biased charts of the Shewhart-, exponentially weighted moving average (EWMA)-, and cumulative sum (CUSUM)-type;
- relate ARL-unbiased Shewhart charts with the notions of unbiased and uniformly most powerful unbiased (UMPU) tests;
- briefly discuss the design of EWMA charts not based on ARL(-unbiasedness).
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