This research aims to present a literature review (LR) on control charts for autocorrelated processes, intending contribute the scientific knowledge of process management area. The article was constructed having question defined ex-ante, elaborated based literature, where protocol adapted from Tranfield, Denyer, and Smart (2003) systematized according methodological rigor demanded in review, wh...

A new method for estimating divergence times when evolutionary rates are variable across lineages is proposed. The method, called nonparametric rate smoothing (NPRS), relies on minimization of ancestor-descendant local rate changes and is motivated by the likelihood that evolutionary rates are autocorrelated in time. Fossil information pertaining to minimum and/or maximum ages of nodes in a phy...