All Shewhart charts have the following characteristics: Each point represents a summary statistic computed from a sample of measurements of a quality characteristic. For example, the summary statistic ...

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C (Applied Statistics), Vol. 40, No. 1 (1991), pp. 1-12 (12 pages) A standard combined Shewhart-cumulative score quality control scheme for controlling ...

The Shewhart chart is named after Walter A. Shewhart (1891-1967), a physicist at the Bell Telephone Laboratories, who introduced the method in 1924 and elaborated upon it in his book Economic Control ...

Some connections are established, by elementary and intuitive paths, among the following statistical techniques: Shewhart control charts, analysis of variance, and chi-square tests.