--- title: "Statistical Process Control Based on Gamma-Frailty AFT Models" author: "Shikhar Tyagi, Arvind Pandey, Bhupendra Singh, Vrijesh Tripathi" output: rmarkdown::html_vignette vignette: > %\VignetteIndexEntry{Statistical Process Control Based on Gamma-Frailty AFT Models} %\VignetteEngine{knitr::rmarkdown} %\VignetteEncoding{UTF-8} --- ```{r setup, include = FALSE} knitr::opts_chunk$set( collapse = TRUE, comment = "#>", fig.width = 7, fig.height = 5 ) library(GammaFrailtySPC) ``` ## 1. Introduction In modern manufacturing and reliability engineering, output quality characteristics often display unobserved heterogeneity due to unmeasured covariates, material variations, or environmental factors. **GammaFrailtySPC** implements the methodology developed by **Asadzadeh (2022)**, integrating Accelerated Failure Time (AFT) regression models with multiplicative gamma frailty to monitor reliability data in the presence of both observed and unobserved covariates under complete and right-censoring schemes. ## 2. Model Formulation Let $Y$ denote the lifetime response, $X$ an observed covariate, and $\gamma$ an unobserved random frailty variable following a Gamma distribution with shape $\lambda$ and scale $\lambda$ ($E(\gamma) = 1$). Assuming a baseline Weibull distribution with shape parameter $\kappa > 0$ and scale parameter $\eta = \exp(\beta_0)$, the Accelerated Failure Time model relates the scale parameter to the observed covariate $X$ via $\exp(\beta_0 + \beta_1 X)$. The unconditional survival function $S(y|x)$ and unconditional density function $f(y|x)$ integrating gamma frailty are derived as: $$S(y|x) = \left[1 + \lambda^{-1} \left( \frac{y}{\exp(\beta_0 + \beta_1 x)} \right)^\kappa \right]^{-\lambda}$$ $$f(y|x) = \frac{\frac{\kappa}{\exp(\beta_0 + \beta_1 x)} \left( \frac{y}{\exp(\beta_0 + \beta_1 x)} \right)^{\kappa - 1}}{\left[1 + \lambda^{-1} \left( \frac{y}{\exp(\beta_0 + \beta_1 x)} \right)^\kappa \right]^{\lambda + 1}}$$ ### Distribution Functions Example ```{r dist-example} # Calculate density and survival probability y_val <- 15 d_val <- dgamma_aft(x = y_val, beta0 = 4.12, beta1 = -0.15, covariates = 3, shape_kappa = 1.72, frailty_lambda = 1.17) s_val <- pgamma_aft(q = y_val, beta0 = 4.12, beta1 = -0.15, covariates = 3, shape_kappa = 1.72, frailty_lambda = 1.17, lower.tail = FALSE) cat("Density at y =", y_val, ":", d_val, "\n") cat("Survival probability at y =", y_val, ":", s_val, "\n") ``` ## 3. Phase I Parameter Estimation Phase I parameter estimation uses Maximum Likelihood Estimation (MLE) on historical dataset $(y_i, \delta_i, x_i)_{i=1}^n$. ```{r fit-example} # Load textile industry dataset data("textile_data") p1_data <- subset(textile_data, phase == "PhaseI") # Fit Weibull AFT Gamma Frailty Model fit <- spc_gamma_frailty_fit(y = p1_data$y, x = p1_data$x, delta = p1_data$delta) summary(fit) ``` ## 4. Phase II Control Charting & Case Study Phase II monitoring deploys three control schemes to detect downward mean shifts in reliability: 1. **PrL Chart**: Probability limits control chart ($LCL_{x,i}$). 2. **EWMA Chart**: EWMA chart with Conditional Expected Values (CEV) for right-censored data. 3. **CUSUM Chart**: Likelihood-ratio CUSUM chart detecting scale shift $\upsilon < 1$. ```{r monitoring-example} p2_data <- subset(textile_data, phase == "PhaseII") # Run master SPC function spc_res <- spc_gamma_frailty( y = p2_data$y, x = p2_data$x, delta = p2_data$delta, fit = fit, alpha = 0.005, omega = 0.05, ewma_lcl = -2.5, upsilon = 0.95, cusum_lcl = -2.5 ) # Display summary and plot charts summary(spc_res) plot(spc_res) ``` ## 5. References - Asadzadeh, S. (2022). Statistical process control based on gamma-frailty models for heterogeneous reliability observations. *Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation*, 92(2), 337-351. \doi{10.1080/00949655.2021.1959582}