The US military-technological revolution and the ‘Europeanization’ of the French defence industrial sector during the 1990s
RUSI JOURNAL FEBRUARY 2004 This article suggests a possible correlation between the United Statesled military-technological revolution and the cab for 'Europeanization' of the French defence industry during the 1990s. It presents French views with regard to the US-promoted 'Revolution in Military Affairs' (RMA) and points to elements that fostered an intensified European orientation of the French defence industry during the 1990s. I
France: Missile Defence à la française
The French government is generally considered to be fundamentally opposed to American plans for National Missile Defense (NMD). To be sure, with an increase in the number of French troops participa...
Distribution-free monitoring of univariate processes
We consider statistical process control (SPC) of univariate processes when observed data are not normally distributed. Most existing SPC procedures are based on the normality assumption. In the literature, it has been demonstrated that their performance is unreliable in cases when they are used for monitoring non-normal processes. To overcome this limitation, we propose two SPC control charts for applications when the process data are not normal, and compare them with the traditional CUSUM chart and two recent distribution-free control charts. Some empirical guidelines are provided for practitioners to choose a proper control chart for a specific application with non-normal data.