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Statistics for Process Control Engineers
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Statistics for Process Control Engineers

by Myke King
October 2017
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
624 pages
17h 24m
English
Wiley
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30Chi Distribution

The chi‐distribution is described by the PDF

The parameter f is often referred to as the degrees of freedom, in which case it should be restricted to integers. Figure 30.1 shows the effect of changing f with α fixed at 0 and β at 1.

Chi: Effect of f on shape with four curves labeled f=1, f=2, f=3,and f=4.

Figure 30.1 Chi: Effect of f on shape

30.1 Half‐Normal

With f set to 1, Equation (30.1) becomes almost the same as Equation (5.35), describing the normal distribution.

(30.2)images

The only difference is a factor of 2 – required because it only applies to half the values of x, i.e. those greater than the mean. It is therefore known as the half‐normal distribution. Process disturbances and inferential errors, which are likely to have a mean close to zero, might follow a normal distribution. Their absolute value will then follow the half‐normal distribution.

Fitting to the absolute values of the NHV disturbances gives α as −0.08 and β as 1.31. As expected, because of the high kurtosis of the data, the fit is poor with RSS at 0.3248.

Mean and variance are

(30.3)images

(30.4)

These give μ as 0.96 and σ as 0.52 – somewhat away from the ...

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