| Article ID: | iaor20084772 |
| Country: | Netherlands |
| Volume: | 178 |
| Issue: | 2 |
| Start Page Number: | 472 |
| End Page Number: | 481 |
| Publication Date: | Apr 2007 |
| Journal: | European Journal of Operational Research |
| Authors: | Tang Jen, Chand Suresh, Teyarachakul Sunantha |
| Keywords: | simulation: applications |
This paper considers the problem of finding limits for a statistical process control (SPC) chart for the process mean, when the process distribution is unknown. The bootstrap method estimates these limits relying on Monte Carlo methods, which are subject to simulation errors. Therefore this paper develops a computationally efficient enumeration method for exact calculations of the control limits.