Bayesian Estimation of the Change Point Using X¯ Control Chart

Abstract

The process personnel always seek the opportunity to improve the processes. One of the essential steps for process improvement is to quickly recognize the starting time or the change point of a process disturbance. The proposed approach combines the X¯ control chart with the Bayesian estimation technique. We show that the control chart has some information about the change point and this information can be used to make an informative prior. Then two Bayes estimators corresponding to the informative and a non informative prior along with MLE are considered. Their efficiencies are compared through a series of simulations. The results show that the Bayes estimator with the informative prior is more accurate and more precise when the means of the process before and after the change point time are not too closed. In addition, the efficiency of the Bayes estimator with the informative prior increases as the change point goes away from the origin.

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