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Industrial Statistics with Minitab
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Industrial Statistics with Minitab

by Pere Grima Cintas, Lluis Marco Almagro, Xavier Tort-Martorell Llabres
October 2012
Beginner
420 pages
9h 37m
English
Wiley
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18.4 I Chart Options

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Parameters

Allows entering the mean and standard deviation of the process and Minitab calculates the limits with both values. By default, these parameters are estimated from the data.

Estimate

It allows you to skip samples (subgroups) from the calculation of the limits. This is useful when you have the certainty of the presence of special causes in a sample.

S Limits

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Tests

By default, only the symptom of special cause for one point beyond the limits (pattern 1) is activated. There are eight symptoms available and it is possible to activate the ones of interest by this option.

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In our case, if all options are activated two more points appear marked with pattern 5 (two out of three beyond two sigmas) and pattern 7 (15 consecutive points within one standard deviation from the mean).

Activating all alarm signs increases the risk of false alarms.

Stages

Mark groups on the graph. We go back and change variable ‘pH F’ (Friday's pH value) by ‘pH’ (all days' ...

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