February 2018
Intermediate to advanced
304 pages
9h 55m
English
Having discussed control charts for count processes in the Sections 8.2 and 8.3, we shall now turn to another type of attributes data process
, namely categorical processes, as introduced in Part II. Although now the range (state space)
of
consists of a finite number
of (unordered) categories with
, count values will still play an important role since the most obvious way of evaluating categorical data is by counting the occurrences of categories; see also Chapter 6.
For quality-related applications,
often describes the result of an inspection of an item, which either leads to the classification
for an
iff the th item was non-conforming ...