A robust metric for screening outliers from analogue product manufacturing tests responses
conference paper
Mahalanobis distance is one of the commonly used multivariate metrics for finely segregating defective devices from non-defective ones. An associated problem with this approach is the estimation of a robust mean and a covariance matrix. In the absence of such robust estimates, especially in the presence of outliers to test-response measurements, and only a sub-sample from the population is available, the distance metric becomes unreliable. To circumvent this problem, multiple Mahalanobis distances are calculated from selected sets of test-response measurements. They are then suitably formulated to derive a metric that has a reduced variance and robust to shifts or deviations in measurements. In this paper, such a formulation is proposed to qualitatively screen product outliers and quantitatively measure the reliability of the non-defective ones. The application of method is exemplified over a test set of an industrial automobile product. © 2011 IEEE.
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TNO Identifier
436029
ISBN
9780769544335
Article nr.
No.: 5957940
Source title
16th IEEE European Test Symposium, ETS 2011, 23 May 2011 through 27 May 2011, Trondheim
Pages
159-164
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