In some manufacturing processes, complex profiles are collected to characterize quality status. However, some of these profiles may have unequal lengths, which makes the attempt of directly comparing them difficult. In addition, when a shift occurs in a profile, it usually affects a segment of continuously connected observations. That is, local shifts instead of global shifts are frequently see...

UML sequence diagrams are widely used during requirements analysis and design for specifying the expected behaviors of a system. In this paper, we present a monitoring profile that extends sequence diagrams to facilitate the comparison between the actual behaviors and expected behaviors of a system. With the profile, the developers can precisely specify the runtime objects to be monitored, the ...

In some applications, quality of a process is characterized by the functional relationship between a response variable and one or more explanatory variables. Profile monitoring is for checking the stability of this relationship over time. Control charts for monitoring nonparametric profiles are useful when the relationship is too complicated to be described parametrically. Most existing control...

In some applications, the quality of a process is characterized by the functional relationship between a response variable and one or more explanatory variables. Profile monitoring is a technique for checking the stability of this relationship over time. General linear profile monitoring is particularly useful in practice due to its simplicity and flexibility. The existing monitoring methods su...

A profile is a relationship between a response variable and one or more independent variables being controlled during the time. Process Capability Indices (PCI) are measured to evaluate the performance of processes in producing conforming products. Despite frequent applications of profile and a variety of available methods to monitor its different types, little researches have been carried out ...

Profile monitoring is a relatively new technique in quality control used when the product or process quality is best represented by a profile (or a curve) at each time period. The essential idea is often to model the profile via some parametric method and then monitor the estimated parameters over time to determine if there have been changes in the profiles. Previous modeling methods have not i...

Original citation: Adetifa, Ifedayo M.O., Bwanaali, Tahreni, Wafula, Jackline, Mutuku, Alex, Karia, Boniface, Makumi, Anne, Mwatsuma, Pauline, Bauni, Evasius, Hammitt, Laura L., Nokes, D. James, Maree, Ephantus, Tabu, Collins, Kamau, Tatu, Mataza, Christine, Williams, Thomas N. and Scott, J. Anthony G.. (2016) Cohort profile : the Kilifi vaccine monitoring study. International Journal of Epidem...

Monitoring multivariate quality characteristics is very common in production and service environment. Therefore, many control charts have been suggested by authors for monitoring multivariate processes. In another side, profile monitoring is a new approach in the area of statistical process control. In this approach, the quality of a product or a process is characterized by a relation between o...

PURPOSE This study investigated changes induced by a single heavy resistance training session on neuromuscular and endocrine systems in trained athletes, using the same exercises for training and testing. METHODS Five different groups volunteered: track and field male sprinters (MS, N = 6), track and field female sprinters (FS, N = 6), body builders (BB, N = 6), and weight lifters performing ...