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- ↑ Mukherjee, A.; Chakraborti, S. (2011-09-26). "A Distribution-free Control Chart for the Joint Monitoring of Location and Scale". Quality and Reliability Engineering International. 28 (3): 335–352. doi:10.1002/qre.1249. ISSN 0748-8017.
- ↑ Chowdhury, S.; Mukherjee, A.; Chakraborti, S. (2013-02-19). "A New Distribution-free Control Chart for Joint Monitoring of Unknown Location and Scale Parameters of Continuous Distributions". Quality and Reliability Engineering International. 30 (2): 191–204. doi:10.1002/qre.1488. ISSN 0748-8017.