Percentiles of Range: Pareto Type Model

Statistical quality control relates heavily on the goodness of control chart limits. The more accurate those limits are, the more likely are to detect whether a process is in control. Various procedures have been developed to compute good control limits. This paper proposes construction of Range chart by considering a Pareto distribution of IV kind. The cumulative distribution function of sample range from their distribution is derived. The percentiles of the distribution of range are worked out and are used to construct the control limits. The performance of the control chart is compared with that of gamma based control chart. Interval estimation for the scale parameter is also worked out.