SSDforR (version 1.0)

Rchart: SPC R-chart

Description

The R-Chart is designed to detect changes in variation over time. There are two forms of this chart available with SSD for R. One version of the R-chart, which is recommended when the sample size is small (i.e., less than ten), uses the mean range of the samples to track variation.

Usage

Rchart(behavior, groupX, bandX, ABxlab, ABylab, ABmain)

Arguments

behavior

behavior variable

groupX

grouping variables i.e. day

bandX

2 number of standard deviations 1 2 or 3

ABxlab

x label "weeks"

ABylab

y label "amount"

ABmain

main title

References

got ssdanalysis for more information

Examples

admit<-c(85,90,80,84,82,79,75,76,80,84,75,80,79,83,88,78,80,85,83,82,89,84,89,91,87,84,77,86,80,
89,81,86,88,83,86,90,86,85,85,87,80,89,NA,86,87,88,89,79,73,75,74,70,75,81,85,75,73,75,
79,70,72,71,69,70,64,60,59,54,53,55,50,54,51,49,48,50,46,55,51,55,49,50,48,51,33)

day<-c(1,1,1,1,1,1,1,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,5,
5,5,5,5,5,5,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,NA,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,9,
9,9,9,9,9,9,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,12,12,12,12,12,12,12)

padmit<-c("A","A","A","A","A","A","A","A","A","A","A","A","A","A","A","A",
"A","A","A","A","A","A","A","A","A","A","A","A","A","A","A","A",
"A","A","A","A","A","A","A","A","A","A",NA,"B","B","B","B","B","B","B","B",
"B","B","B","B","B","B","B","B","B","B","B","B","B","B","B","B",
"B","B","B","B","B","B","B","B","B","B","B","B","B","B","B","B","B","B")
Rchart(admit, day, 2, "week", "amount", "Admits to Hospital")