The aim of nuclear safeguards is to ensure that special nuclear material is used for peaceful purposes. Historically, nuclear material accounting (NMA) has provided the quantitative basis for monitoring for nuclear material loss or diversion, and process monitoring (PM) data is collected by the operator to monitor the process. PM data typically support NMA in various ways, often by providing a ...

In this paper, we consider the supplier selection problem for normally distributed processes with multiple independent characteristics based on process capability index A two-phase testing procedure based on the quotient of two statistics is proposed to deal with the problem. We obtain the sampling distribution and the probability density function of the quotient. Several tables of the critical...

Process Capability indices have become popular for describing how well a process meets specified tolerances. The lack of affinity with the process nonconformance probability p and the difficulty of dealing with the sampling distribution of their natural estimators affect greatly the use of the traditional indices as Cp, Cpk, Cpm and Cpkm. In this paper, a capability index is proposed which is c...

The estimation of the Pareto index in presence of covariate information is discussed. The Pareto index is modelled as a function of the explanatory variables and hence measures the tail heaviness of the conditional distribution of the response variable given this covariate information. The original response data are transformed in order to obtain generalized residuals, possessing a common Paret...

This thesis presents contributions within the field of process capability analysis. Process capability analysis deals with how to assess the capability of processes. Based on process capability analysis one can determine how the process performs relative to its product requirements or specifications. An important part within process capability analysis is the use of process capability indices. ...

In the competitive global business environment, enterprises should effectively respond to and satisfy customer needs. Outsourcing manufacturing is an effective method of adjusting the flexibility of production capability. To ensure final product quality, evaluating and selecting a contract manufacturer is essential. Process capability indices are extensively adopted in manufacturing to determin...

Consider a stationary, pth order autoregression fX n g satisfying whose innovation sequence fZ n g is iid with regularly varying tail probabilities of index ?. From p of the autore-gressive coeecients and then to estimate the residuals by and then to apply Hill's estimator to the estimated residuals. We show that from the point of asymptotic variance, the second procedure is superior.