Distribution-Free Methods for Statistical Process Monitoring and Control

Markos V. Koutras is a Full Professor at the Department of Statistics and Insurance Science, University of Piraeus, Greece. He received his B.S. in Mathematics and holds an M.Sc. in Computer Science and Operations Research and a Ph.D. in Statistics. He has authored more than 90 publications in referred journals, 20 publications in referred special volumes (by invitation). He has authored/co-authored 10 books in Greek and 5 in English (2 of them forthcoming). He currently serves on the editorial board of several journals (Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics, Methodology and Computing in Applied Probability, Communications in Statistics etc) and he has been reviewer for more than 35 Journals. His research interests include the theory of run and scan statistics, statistical process control, reliability theory, nonparametric statistics and multivariate statistical analysis. Ioannis S. Triantafyllou is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Biomedical Informatics, University of Thessaly, Greece. He received his B.S. degree in Mathematics from the University of Athens, Greece, and his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Statistics from the University of Piraeus, Greece. He has published over 40 peer-reviewed papers in international refereed scientific journals, edited volumes and conference proceedings, and has served as referee for more than 15 scientific journals. His research interests include applied probability, nonparametric statistics, reliability theory and statistical process control.

• An Overview of Nonparametric Control Charts.- Distribution-free Control Charts for Monitoring the Location Parameter.- Nonparametric Control Charts for Monitoring the Dispersion Parameter.- Bivariate Nonparametric Control Charts.- Exponentially Weighted Moving Average Control Charts based on Ranks.- Cumulative Sum Control Charts based on Ranks.- Nonparametric Control Charts based on Order Statistics.- The Run-Length Distribution of Nonparametric Control Charts.- Distribution-free Control Charts for Joint Monitoring Location and Scale.- Distribution-free Phase II Control Charts for Monitoring Continuous Process.