William H. Woodall

Undergraduate courses

• Applied statistics
• Mathematical statistics
• Time series analysis
• Statistical quality control

Graduate courses

• Applied statistics
• Statistical quality control
• Advanced statistical quality control
• Stochastic processes
• Mathematical statistics
• Time series analysis
• Experimental design
• Nonparametric methods
• Six Sigma

• Statistical quality control and improvement, including all aspects of control charting
• Health-related monitoring and prospective public health surveillance
• Critiques of fuzzy logic

• Woodall, W. H., and Reynolds, M. R., Jr. (1983), "A Discrete Markov Chain Representation of SPRT's," Communications in Statistics - Sequential Analysis, 2(1), 27-44.
• Woodall, W. H. (1983), "The Distribution of the Run Length of One-Sided CUSUM Procedures for Continuous Random Variables," Technometrics, 25(3), 295-301.
• Woodall, W. H. (1984), "On the Markov Chain Approach to the Two-Sided CUSUM Procedure," Technometrics, 26(1), 41-46.
• Ncube, M. M., and Woodall, W. H. (1984), "A Combined Shewhart-Cumulative Score Quality Control Procedure," Applied Statistics, 33(3), 259-265.
• Woodall, W. H. (1985), "The Statistical Design of Quality Control Charts," The Statistician, 34(2), 155-160. Reprinted in Quest for Quality (1987), edited by Mehram Sepehri, Industrial Engineering and Management Press, Atlanta, Georgia.
• Woodall, W. H., and Ncube, M. M. (1985), "Multivariate CUSUM Quality Control Procedures," Technometrics, 27(3), 285-292.
• Woodall, W. H. (1986), "The Design of CUSUM Quality Control Charts," Journal of Quality Technology, 18(2), 99-102.
• Tuprah, K. and Woodall, W. H. (1986), "Bivariate Dispersion Quality Control Charts," Communications in Statistics - Simulation and Computation, 15(2), 505-522.
• Champ, C. W., and Woodall, W. H. (1987), "Exact Results for Shewhart Control Charts with Supplementary Runs Rules," Technometrics, 29(4), 393-399. (Ellis Ott Foundation Award)
• Davis, R. B., and Woodall, W. H. (1988), "Performance of the Control Chart Trend Rule Under Linear Shift," Journal of Quality Technology, 20(4), 260-262.
• Adams, B. M., and Woodall, W. H. (1989), "An Analysis of Taguchi's On-Line Process Control Method Under a Random Walk Model," Technometrics, 31(4), 401-413.
• Champ, C. W., and Woodall, W. H. (1990), "A Program to Evaluate the Run Length Distribution of Shewhart Control Charts with Supplementary Runs Rules," Journal of Quality Technology, 22(1), 68-73.
• Davis, R. B., Homer, A., and Woodall, W. H. (1990), "Performance of the Zone Control Chart," Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods, 19(5), 1581-1587.
• Champ, C. W., Woodall, W. H., and Moshen, H. A. (1991), "A Generalized Quality Control Procedure," Statistics and Probability Letters, 11(3), 211-218.
• Maragah, H. D., and Woodall, W. H. (1992), "The Effect of Autocorrelation on the Retrospective X-Chart," Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation, 40, 29-42.
• Lowry, C. A., Woodall, W. H., Champ, C. W., and Rigdon, S. E. (1992), "A Multivariate Exponentially Weighted Moving Average Control Chart," Technometrics, 34(1), 46-53.
• Woodall, W. H. (1992), "A Note on Maximum Z-Scores for Control Charts for Individuals," Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods, 21(11), 3211-3217.
• Woodall, W. H., and Adams, B. M. (1993), "The Statistical Design of CUSUM Charts," Quality Engineering, 5 (4), 559-570.
• Nayebpour, M. R., and Woodall, W. H. (1993), "An Analysis of Taguchi's On-Line Quality Monitoring Procedures for Attributes," Technometrics, 35(1), 53-60.
• Tsui, K-L., and Woodall, W. H. (1993), "Multivariate Control Charts Based on Loss Functions," Sequential Analysis, 12 (1), 79-92.
• Wade, M. R., and Woodall, W. H. (1993), "A Review and Analysis of Cause-Selecting Control Charts," Journal of Quality Technology, 25(3), 161-169.
• Bullington, R. G., Lovin, S., Miller, D. M., and Woodall, W. H. (1993), "Improvement of an Industrial Thermostat Using Designed Experiments," Journal of Quality Technology, 25(4), 262-270.
• Davis, R. E., and Woodall, W. H. (1994), "A Study of Parabolic Control Limits for the EWMA Control Chart," Communications in Statistics - Simulation and Computation, 23 (1), 17-26.
• Gray, J. Brian, and Woodall, W. H. (1994), "On the Maximum Size of Standardized and Internally Studentized Residuals in Regression Analysis," American Statistician, 48(2), 111 - 113.
• Sullivan, J. H. and Woodall, W. H. (1994), "A Comparison of Fuzzy Forecasting and Markov Modeling," Fuzzy Sets and Systems, 64(3), 279-293.
• Redden, D. T. and Woodall, W. H. (1994), "Properties of Certain Fuzzy Linear Regression Methods," Fuzzy Sets and Systems, 64(3), 361-375.
• Laviolette, M., Seaman, J. W., Jr., Barrett, J. D., and Woodall, W. H. (1995), "A Probabilistic and Statistical View of Fuzzy Methods," (with discussion) Technometrics, 37(3), 249-292. (Presented in the Technometrics session of the 1994 Joint Statistical Meetings in Toronto, Canada.) (Youden Prize).
• Woodall, W. H., and Thomas, E.V. (1995), "Statistical Process Control with Several Components of Common Cause Variability," IIE Transactions, 27(6), 757-764.
• Margavio, T. M., Conerly, M. D., Woodall, W. H., and Drake, L. G. (1995), "Alarm Rates for Quality Control Charts," Statistics and Probability Letters, 24(3), 219-224.
• Lowry, C. A., Champ, C. W., and Woodall, W. H. (1995), "Performance of Control Charts for Monitoring Process Variation," Communications in Statistics - Simulation and Computation, 24 (2), 409-437.
• Sullivan, J. H., Barrett, J. D., and Woodall, W. H. (1995), “Interpreting the Retrospective T2 Control Chart Based on Individual Observations,” invited paper in the Indian Association for Productivity, Quality, and Reliability Transactions, special issue dedicated to the memory of Professor P. K. Bose, 20, 183-195.
• Sullivan, J. H., and Woodall, W. H. (1996), "A Control Chart for Preliminary Analysis of Individual Observations," Journal of Quality Technology, 28(3), 265-278.
• Redden, D. T., and Woodall, W. H. (1996), “Further Examination of Fuzzy Linear Regression,” Fuzzy Sets and Systems, 79(2), 203-211.
• Sullivan, J. H., and Woodall, W. H. (1996), “A Comparison of Multivariate Quality Control Charts for Individual Observations,” Journal of Quality Technology, 28(4), 398-
• Barrett, J. D., and Woodall, W. H. (1997), “A Probabilistic Alternative to Fuzzy Logic Controllers,” IIE Transactions - Quality and Reliability Engineering, 29(6), 459-467. (Best Paper Award).
• Woodall, W. H. (1997), “Control Charting Based on Attribute Data: Bibliography and Review,” Journal of Quality Technology, 29(2), 172-183.
• Champ, C. W., and Woodall, W. H. (1997), “Signal Probabilities of Runs Rules Supplementing a Shewhart Control Chart,” Communications in Statistics-Simulation and Computation, 26(4), 1347-1360.
• Jones, L. A., and Woodall, W. H. (1997), “A Runs Rule Alternative to Level Crossings in Statistical Process Control,” Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation, 59(4), 315-331.
• Jones, L. A., and Woodall, W. H. (1998), “The Performance of Bootstrap Control Charts,” Journal of Quality Technology, 30(4), 362-375.
• Jones, L. A., Woodall, W. H., and Conerly, M. D. (1999), “Exact Properties of Demerit Control Charts,” Journal of Quality Technology, 31(2), 207-216.
• Sullivan, J. H., and Woodall, W. H. (1998), “Adapting Control Charts for the Preliminary Analysis of Multivariate Observations,” Communications in Statistics - Simulation and Computation, 27 (4), 953-979.
• Barrett, J. D., and Woodall, W. H. (1999), “A Simple Probabilistic Representation of the Product-Sum Fuzzy Logic Controller,” Communications in Statistics-Stochastic Models, 15, 201-225.
• Woodall, W. H., and Montgomery, D. C. (1999), “Research Issues and Ideas in Statistical Process Control,” Journal of Quality Technology, 31(4), 376-386.
• Sullivan, J. H., and Woodall, W. H. (1999), “Estimating Markov Transition Matrices Using Uncertain Observed States,” Stochastic Analysis and Applications, 17(2), 253-274.
• Sullivan, J. H., and Woodall, W. H. (2000), “Change-Point Detection of Mean Vector or Covariance Matrix Shifts Using Multivariate Individual Observations,” IIE Transactions Quality and Reliability Engineering, 32(6), 537-549.
• Woodall, W. H. (2000), “Controversies and Contradictions in Statistical Process Control,” (with discussion), Journal of Quality Technology, 32(4), 341-378. (Brumbaugh Award)
• Jiang, W., Tsui, K.-L., and Woodall, W. H. (2000), “A New SPC Monitoring Method: The ARMA Chart,” Technometrics, 42(4), 399-410.
• Woodall, W. H., and Montgomery, D. C. (2000), “Using Ranges to Estimate Variability,” Quality Engineering, 13(2), 211-217.
• Cleveland, C. D., Jr., Sullivan, J. H., Batson, R. G., and Woodall, W. H. (2001), “A Program for Retrospective Change-Point Analysis of Individual Observations,” Journal of Quality Technology, 33(2), 242-257.
• Stoumbos, Z. G., Reynolds, M. R., Jr., Ryan, T. P., and Woodall, W. H. (2000), “The State of Statistical Process Control as We Proceed into the 21st Century,” Journal of the American Statistical Association, 95(451), 992-998. (Reprinted in Statistics for the 21^st Century, Chapman and Hall, 2001, edited by A.E. Raftery, M.A. Tanner, and M.T. Wells).
• Linna, K. W., and Woodall, W. H. (2001). “The Effect of Measurement Error on the Performance of Shewhart Control Charts,” Journal of Quality Technology, 33(2), 213- 222.
• Linna, K. W., Woodall, W. H., and Busby, K. L. (2001), “The Performance of Multivariate Control Charts in the Presence of Measurement Error,” Journal of Quality Technology, 33(3), 349-355.
• Davis, R. B., and Woodall, W.H. (2002), “Evaluating and Improving the Synthetic Control Chart,” Journal of Quality Technology, 34(2), 200-208.
• Woodall, W.H., Koudelik, R., Tsui, K.-L., Kim, S.B., Stoumbos, Z.G., and Carvounis, C.P. (2003), “A Review and Analysis of the Mahalanobis-Taguchi System,” Technometrics, 45(1), 1-30. (With discussion by R. Jugulum, G. Taguchi, S. Taguchi, and J. O. Wilkins; D. M. Hawkins; and B. Abraham and A. M. Variyath.) (Youden Prize)
• Noorossana, R., Woodall, W.H., and Amiriparian, S. (2002), “On the Economic Design of Multivariate Control Charts,” Communications in Statistics – Theory and Methods, 31(9), 1665-1673.
• Tucker, G. T., Woodall, W. H., and Tsui, K. –L. (2002), “A Control Chart Method for Ordinal Data,” American Journal of Mathematical and Management Sciences, 22, 31-48.
• Kim, K., Mahmoud, M. A., and Woodall, W. H. (2003), “On the Monitoring of Linear Profiles,” Journal of Quality Technology, 35(3), 317-328.
• Mahmoud, M. A., and Woodall, W. H. (2004), “Phase I Analysis of Linear Profiles with Calibration Applications”, Technometrics, 46(4), 377-391.
• Woodall, W. H., Spitzner, D. J., Montgomery, D. C., and Gupta, S. (2004). “Using Control Charts to Monitor Process and Product Quality Profiles”, Journal of Quality Technology 36(3), 309-320. (Corrigendum, JQT 2006, 38(2), 197.)
• Ryan, T. P., and Woodall, W. H. (2005), “The Most-Cited Statistical Papers,” Journal of Applied Statistics 32(5), 461-474.
• Woodall, W. H., and Mahmoud, M. A. (2005), “The Inertial Properties of Quality Control Charts”, Technometrics 47(4), 425-436. (Presented at the Technometrics Session of the 49th Fall Technical Conference, St. Louis, MO)
• Gupta, S., Montgomery, D. C., and Woodall, W. H. (2006), “Performance Evaluation of Two Methods for Online Monitoring of Linear Calibration Profiles”, International Journal of Production Research, 44(10), 1927-1942.
• Mahmoud, M. A., Parker, P. A., Woodall, W. H., and Hawkins, D. M. (2007), “A Change Point Method for Linear Profile Data”, Quality & Reliability Engineering International, 23(2), 247-268.
• Williams, J. D., Woodall, W. H., Birch. J. B., and Sullivan, J. H. (2006), “On the Distribution of Hotelling’s T2 Statistic Based on the Successive Differences Covariance Matrix Estimator”, Journal of Quality Technology, 38(3), 217-229.
• Jensen, W. A., Jones-Farmer, L. A., Champ, C. W., and Woodall, W. H. (2006), “Effects of Parameter Estimation on Control Chart Properties: A Literature Review”, Journal of Quality Technology 38(4), 349-364.
• Runger, G. C., Barton, R. R., Del Castillo, E., and Woodall, W. H. (2007), “Optimal Monitoring of Multivariate Data for Fault Detection”, Journal of Quality Technology, 39(2), 159-172.
• Woodall, W. H. (2006), “Use of Control Charts in Health-Care and Public-Health Surveillance” (with discussion), Journal of Quality Technology, 38(2), 89-104. (Brumbaugh Award)
• Joner, M. D., Jr., Woodall, W. H., Reynolds, M. R., Jr., and Fricker, R. D., Jr. (2008), “A One-Sided MEWMA Chart for Health Surveillance”, Quality and Reliability Engineering International 24 (5), 503-518.
• Marshall, J. B., Spitzner, D. J., and Woodall, W. H. (2007), “Use of the Local Knox Statistic for the Prospective Monitoring of Disease Occurrences in Space and Time”, Statistics in Medicine 26 (7), 1579-1593.
• Jensen, W. A., Birch, J. B., and Woodall, W. H. (2007), “High Breakdown Estimation for Phase I Multivariate Control Charts”, Quality and Reliability Engineering International 23, 615-629.
• Sego, L. H., Woodall, W. H., and Reynolds, M. R., Jr. (2008), “A Comparison of Surveillance Methods for Small Incidence Rates”, Statistics in Medicine 27(8), 1225 - 1247.
• Williams, J. D., Birch, J. B., Woodall, W. H., and Ferry, N. M. (2007), “Statistical Monitoring of Heteroscedastic Dose-Response Profiles from High-Throughput Screening”, Journal of Agricultural, Biological and Environmental Statistics 12(2), 216-235.
• Jensen, W. A., Birch, J. B., and Woodall, W. H. (2008), “Monitoring Correlation within Linear Profiles Using Mixed Models”, Journal of Quality Technology 40(2), 167-183.
• Woodall, W. H., Marshall, J. B., Joner, M. D., Jr., Fraker, S. E., and Abdel-Salam, A. G. (2008), “On the Use and Evaluation of Prospective Scan Methods in Health-Related Surveillance”, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A, 171(1), 223-237.
• Joner, M. D., Jr., Woodall, W. H., and Reynolds, M.R., Jr. (2008), “Detecting a Rate Increase Using a Bernoulli Scan Statistic”, Statistics in Medicine 27, 2555-2575.
• Woodall, W. H. and Borror, C. M. (2008), “Some Relationships between Gage R&R Criteria”, Quality and Reliability Engineering International 24, 99-106.
• Sego, L H., Reynolds, M. R., Jr., and Woodall, W. H. (2009), “Risk-Adjusted Monitoring of Survival Times”, Statistics in Medicine 28, 1386-1401.
• Mohammed, M. A., Worthington, P., and Woodall, W. H. (2008), “Plotting Basic Control Charts: Tutorial Notes for Healthcare Practitioners”, Quality and Safety in Health Care 17, 137-145.
• Williams, J.D., Woodall, W. H., and Birch, J. B. (2007), “Statistical Monitoring of Nonlinear Product and Process Quality Profiles”, Quality and Reliability Engineering International 23(7), 925-941.
• Fraker, S. E., Woodall, W. H., and Mousavi, S. (2008), “Performance Metrics for Surveillance Schemes”, Quality Engineering 20, 451-464.
• Fraker, S. E., Woodall, W. H., and Burkom, H. S. (2008), “A Note on the Poisson Likelihood Ratio Test Statistic for Kulldorff’s Scan Methods”. Communications in Statistics – Theory and Methods 37(7), 998-1001.
• Mahmoud, M. A., Woodall, W. H., and Davis, R. E. (2008), “Performance Comparison of Some Likelihood Ratio-Based Statistical Surveillance Schemes”. Journal of Applied Statistics 35(7), 783-798.
• Woodall, W. H. (2007), “Current Research in Profile Monitoring”, Producão 17(3), 420- 425. (Invited paper)
• Montgomery, D. C., and Woodall, W. H. (2008), “An Overview of Six Sigma”, International Statistical Review 76(3), 329-346. (Invited paper)
• Mahmoud, M. A., Morgan, J. P., and Woodall, W. H. (2010), “The Monitoring of Simple Linear Regression Profiles with Two Observations per Sample”, Journal of Applied Statistics 37 (8), 1249-1263.
• Woodall, W. H. (2009), “A Conversation with Donald J. Wheeler”, Quality Engineering 21 (4), 357-365.
• Tsui, K-L., Han, S. W., Jiang, W., and Woodall, W. H. (2012), “A Review and Comparison of Likelihood-based Charting methods”, IIE Transactions 44, pp. 724-743.
• Ryan, A. G. and Woodall, W. H. (2010), “Control Charts for Poisson Count Data with Varying Sample Sizes”, Journal of Quality Technology 42 (3), 260-275.
• Mahmoud, M. A. and Woodall, W. H. (2010), “An Evaluation of the Double Exponentially Weighted Moving Average Control Chart”, Communications in Statistics – Simulation and Computation 39, 933-949.
• Jiang, W., Han, S. W., Tsui, K-L., and Woodall, W. H. (2011), “Spatiotemporal Surveillance in the Presence of Spatial Correlation”, Statistics in Medicine 30(5), 569-583.
• Szarka, J. L., III, Gan, L., and Woodall, W. H. (2011), “Comparison of the Early Aberration Reporting System (EARS) W2 Methods to an Adaptive Threshold Method”, Statistics in Medicine 30(5), 489-504.
• Mahmoud, M. A., Henderson, G. R., Epprecht, E. K., and Woodall, W. H. (2010), “Estimating the Standard Deviation in Quality Control Applications”, Journal of Quality Technology 42(4), 348-357.
• Megahed, F. M., Woodall, W. H., and Camelio, J. A. (2011), “A Review and Perspective on Control Charting with Image Data”, Journal of Quality Technology 43(2), 83-98.
• Megahed, F. M., Kensler, J.L.K., Bedair, K., and Woodall, W. H. (2011), “A Note on the ARL of Two-sided Bernoulli-based CUSUM Control Charts”, Journal of Quality Technology 43(1), 43-49.
• Ryan, A. G., Wells, L.J., and Woodall, W. H. (2011), “Methods for Monitoring Multiple Proportions When Inspecting Continuously”, Journal of Quality Technology 43(3), 237-
• Megahed, F. M., Fraker, S. E., and Woodall, W. H. (2012), “A Note on Two Performance Metrics for Public-Health Surveillance Schemes”, to appear in the Journal of Applied Probability and Statistics.
• He, S., Huang, W., and Woodall, W. H. (2012), “CUSUM Charts for Monitoring a Zero- Inflated Poisson Process”, Quality and Reliability Engineering International 28(2), 181-192.
• Szarka, J. L., III, and Woodall, W. H. (2011), “A Review and Perspective on Surveillance of Bernoulli Processes”, Quality and Reliability Engineering International 27, 735-752.
• Szarka, J. L., III, and Woodall, W. H. (2012), “On the Equivalence of the Bernoulli and Geometric CUSUM Charts”, Journal of Quality Technology 44(1), 54-62.
• Wells, L. J., Megahed, F. M., Camelio, J. A., and Woodall, W. H. (2012), “A Framework for Variation Visualization and Understanding in Complex Manufacturing Systems”, to appear in the Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing.
• Megahed, F. M., Wells, L. J., Camelio, J. A., and Woodall, W. H. (2012), “A Spatiotemporal Method for the Monitoring of Image Data”, to appear in Quality and Reliability Engineering International.
• Zhang, M., Peng, Y., Schuh, A., Megahed, F. M., and Woodall, W. H. (2012), “Geometric Charts with Estimated Parameters”, to appear in Quality and Reliability Engineering International.
• Lee, J., Wang, N., Xu, L., Schuh, A., and Woodall, W. H. (2012), “The Effect of Parameter Estimation on Upper-Sided Bernoulli CUSUM Charts”, to appear in Quality and Reliability Engineering International.
• Xu, L., Wang, S., Peng, Y., Morgan, J.P., Reynolds, M.R., Jr., and Woodall, W. H. (2012), “The Monitoring of Linear Profiles with a GLR Control Chart”, to appear in Journal of Quality Technology.
• Box, G. E. P. and Woodall, W. H. (2012), “Innovation, Quality Engineering, and Statistics”, Quality Engineering 24, 20-29.
• Wells, L. J., Megahed, F. M., Niziolek, C., Camelio, J. A., and Woodall, W. H. (2012), “Statistical Process Monitoring Approach for High Density Point Clouds”, to appear in the Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing.
• Zhang, Y., He Z., Zhang, C., and Woodall, W. H. (2012), “Control Charts for Monitoring
  Linear Profiles with Within-profile Correlation Using Gaussian Process Models”, To
  appear in Quality and Reliability Engineering International.
• Schuh, A., Camelio, J. A., and Woodall, W. H. (2013), “Control Charts for Accident
  Frequency: A Motivation for Real-Time Occupational Safety Monitoring”, to appear in
  International Journal of Injury Control and Safety Promotion.
• Woodall, W. H. and Montgomery, D. C. (2012). “Some Current Directions in the Theory
  and Application of Statistical Process Monitoring”, to appear in the Journal of Quality
  Technology.
• Zhang, M., Megahed, F. M., and Woodall, W.H. (2012). “Exponential CUSUM Charts
  with Estimated Control Limits”, to appear in Quality and Reliability Engineering
  International.
• Chen, Y, Birch, J. B., and Woodall, W. H. (2012), “Cluster-Based Profile Monitoring in
  Phase I Analysis”, submitted to the Journal of Quality Technology.
• Schuh, A., Woodall, W. H., and Camelio, J. A. (2013). “The Effect of Aggregating Data
  When Monitoring a Poisson Process”, to appear in the Journal of Quality Technology.