An improved mean deviation exponentially weighted moving average control chart to monitor process dispersion under ranked set sampling

Quality-control charts are widely used to monitor and detect shifts in the process mean and dispersion. Abbasi and Miller [MDEWMA chart: an efficient and robust alternative to monitor process dispersion, J Stat Comput Simul 2013;83:247–268] suggested a robust mean deviation exponentially weighted moving average (MDEWMA) control chart for monitoring process dispersion under simple random sampling. In this study, an improved MDEWMA (IMDEWMA) control chart is proposed under ranked set sampling to monitor process dispersion. Detailed Monte Carlo simulations are performed from symmetric and asymmetric populations to investigate the performances of the proposed and existing control charts in terms of average run length (ARL), median run length and standard deviation of run length. An application to real-life data is also presented to illustrate the use of the IMDEWMA control chart. It is observed that the IMDEWMA control chart indicates a shift in process dispersion substantially quicker than the MDEWMA control chart, while maintaining comparable ARLs when the process is in control.

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