Some Control Procedures Useful for One-sieded Asymmetrical Distributions

Shewhart X-chart, which is most widely used in practice, is shown to be inappropriate for the cases where the process distribution is one-sided asymmetrical, and thus some nonparametric Shewhart type charts are developed instead. These schemes may be applied usefully when there is not enough information in determining the process distribution. The average run lengths are obtained to compare the efficiency of control charts for various shifts of the location parameter and for some typical one-sided asymmetrical distributions.