Nelson rules

<h2 id="see-also">See also</h2>
<ul><li><a href="/facts/Common_cause_and_special_cause/p1qwqXX0">Common cause and special cause</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Statistical_process_control/Qwkqg5d4">Statistical process control</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Western_Electric_rules/ht4Q9Pyr">Western Electric rules</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Westgard_rules/5HK6pdTc">Westgard rules</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/American_Society_for_Quality/u7JCt2wH">American Society for Quality</a>, Quality Tools</li></ul>

<h2 id="external-links">External links</h2>
<ul><li><a href="https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADA310869.pdf">Small Business Guidebook to Quality Management (pdf)</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.asq.org/learn-about-quality/data-collection-analysis-tools/overview/control-chart.html">Control Chart</a></li></ul>

<h2 id="references">References</h2>

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<li id="fn:1"><p>Engineering Statistics Handbook 6.3.2, NIST/SEMATECH e-Handbook of Statistical Methods National Institute of Standards and Technology, Dec 2006 <a href="http://www.itl.nist.gov/div898/handbook/pmc/section3/pmc32.htm" target="_blank">http://www.itl.nist.gov/div898/handbook/pmc/section3/pmc32.htm</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:2"><p>Lloyd S. Nelson, "The Shewhart Control Chart—Tests for Special Causes". Journal of Quality Technology 16, no. 4 (October 1984), 238-239. https://doi.org/10.1080/00224065.1984.11978921 <a href="https://doi.org/10.1080/00224065.1984.11978921" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.1080/00224065.1984.11978921</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
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