Optimal Surveillance
Journal article, 1991

Continual surveillance to detect some event is of interest in quite different situations in industry, medicine, economics and other fields. A general method with an optimality property is described. The implications of the method for some different situations are derived. Some commonly used methods turn out to be special cases.

Optimality

Power one test

Warning system

Shewhart test

Cusum

Quality control

Author

Marianne Frisén

Department of Mathematics, Mathematical Statistics

University of Gothenburg

Jacques de Maré

Department of Mathematics, Mathematical Statistics

University of Gothenburg

Biometrika

Vol. 78 2 271-280

Subject Categories

Probability Theory and Statistics

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10/6/2017