Smiley W. Cheng

2.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
41 papers, 1.9k citations indexed

About

Smiley W. Cheng is a scholar working on Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty, Statistics and Probability and Management Science and Operations Research. According to data from OpenAlex, Smiley W. Cheng has authored 41 papers receiving a total of 1.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 30 papers in Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty, 23 papers in Statistics and Probability and 7 papers in Management Science and Operations Research. Recurrent topics in Smiley W. Cheng's work include Advanced Statistical Process Monitoring (24 papers), Scientific Measurement and Uncertainty Evaluation (15 papers) and Statistical Distribution Estimation and Applications (12 papers). Smiley W. Cheng is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Statistical Process Monitoring (24 papers), Scientific Measurement and Uncertainty Evaluation (15 papers) and Statistical Distribution Estimation and Applications (12 papers). Smiley W. Cheng collaborates with scholars based in Canada, Taiwan and China. Smiley W. Cheng's co-authors include Lai K. Chan, Gemai Chen, Hansheng Xie, Su‐Fen Yang, Fred Spiring, Bartholomew P.K. Leung, Min‐Te Chao, James C. Fu, Tsung‐Chi Cheng and Ying‐Chao Hung and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Statistical Association, Technometrics and Expert Systems with Applications.

In The Last Decade

Smiley W. Cheng

39 papers receiving 1.8k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

A New Measure of Process Capability:C_pm

1988 609 citations Lai K. Chan, Smiley W. Cheng et al. Journal of Quality Technology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Smiley W. Cheng Canada	17	1.7k	946	418	293	253	41	1.9k
Muhammad Azam Pakistan	21	1.2k 0.7×	701 0.7×	416 1.0×	212 0.7×	296 1.2×	79	1.4k
Su‐Fen Yang Taiwan	17	836 0.5×	485 0.5×	123 0.3×	201 0.7×	108 0.4×	74	1.0k
Chao‐Yu Chou Taiwan	17	690 0.4×	324 0.3×	216 0.5×	99 0.3×	142 0.6×	82	850
Tzong‐Ru Tsai Taiwan	22	976 0.6×	979 1.0×	252 0.6×	114 0.4×	90 0.4×	106	1.4k
Kerstin Vännman Sweden	16	713 0.4×	375 0.4×	316 0.8×	101 0.3×	152 0.6×	45	802
Bahram Sadeghpour Gildeh Iran	15	476 0.3×	395 0.4×	304 0.7×	103 0.4×	111 0.4×	96	702
Jen Tang United States	15	401 0.2×	348 0.4×	106 0.3×	93 0.3×	119 0.5×	33	772
Cédric Heuchenne Belgium	15	434 0.2×	333 0.4×	106 0.3×	89 0.3×	37 0.1×	56	620
Yeh Lam Hong Kong	20	348 0.2×	621 0.7×	104 0.2×	15 0.1×	40 0.2×	38	964
Arne Johannssen Germany	14	182 0.1×	250 0.3×	134 0.3×	80 0.3×	36 0.1×	60	515

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Smiley W. Cheng

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All Works

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Yang, Su‐Fen, et al.. (2010). A new nonparametric EWMA Sign Control Chart. Expert Systems with Applications. 38(5). 6239–6243. 116 indexed citations

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Yang, Su‐Fen & Smiley W. Cheng. (2010). A new non‐parametric CUSUM mean chart. Quality and Reliability Engineering International. 27(7). 867–875. 66 indexed citations

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Chao, Min‐Te & Smiley W. Cheng. (2008). On 2-D Control Charts. Quality Technology & Quantitative Management. 5(3). 243–261. 11 indexed citations

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Spiring, Fred, et al.. (2003). A Bibliography of Process Capability Papers. Quality and Reliability Engineering International. 19(5). 445–460. 127 indexed citations

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Kotz, Samuel, Norman L. Johnson, Norma F. Hubele, et al.. (2002). Process Capability Indices - A Review, 1992-2000 (With Subsequent Discussions and Response). 34. 16 indexed citations

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Spiring, Fred, et al.. (2002). Discussion. Journal of Quality Technology. 34(1). 23–27. 4 indexed citations

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Cheng, Smiley W. & Hansheng Xie. (2000). Control Charts for Lognormal Data. Journal of Applied Science and Engineering. 3(3). 131–137. 7 indexed citations

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Chen, Gemai & Smiley W. Cheng. (1998). MAX CHART: COMBINING X-BAR CHART AND S CHART. 70 indexed citations

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Chen, Gemai & Smiley W. Cheng. (1998). The exact u chart can be obtained using simple adjustments. Statistics & Probability Letters. 37(4). 357–365. 3 indexed citations

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Chao, Min‐Te & Smiley W. Cheng. (1996). Semicircle Control Chart for Variables Data. Quality Engineering. 8(3). 441–446. 47 indexed citations

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Cheng, Smiley W.. (1992). IS THE PROCESS CAPABLE? TABLES AND GRAPHS IN ASSESSING C_pm. Quality Engineering. 4(4). 563–576. 24 indexed citations

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Cheng, Smiley W., et al.. (1989). Assessing Process Capability: A Bayesian Approach. IIE Transactions. 21(1). 97–98. 48 indexed citations

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Chan, Lai K., et al.. (1988). A New Measure of Process Capability:C_pm. Journal of Quality Technology. 20(3). 162–175. 609 indexed citations breakdown →

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Cheng, Smiley W. & Fred Spiring. (1987). A Test to Identify the Uniform Distribution, with Applications to Probability Plotting and Other Distributions. IEEE Transactions on Reliability. R-36(1). 98–105. 6 indexed citations

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Cheng, Smiley W.. (1984). Hypothesis testing of the location and scale parameters using order statistics. Statistics & Probability Letters. 2(4). 207–210. 3 indexed citations

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Cheng, Smiley W.. (1983). On the most powerful quantile test of the scale parameter. Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics. 35(3). 407–414. 1 indexed citations

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Chan, Lai K. & Smiley W. Cheng. (1974). An Algorithm for Determining the Asymptotically Best Linear Estimate of the Mean from Multiply Censored Logistic Data. Journal of the American Statistical Association. 69(348). 1027–1030. 6 indexed citations

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Chan, Lai K., et al.. (1973). On a t-Test for the Scale Parameter Based on Sample Percentiles. IEEE Transactions on Reliability. R-22(2). 82–87. 2 indexed citations

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Chan, Lai K. & Smiley W. Cheng. (1972). Optimum spacing for the asymptotically best linear estimate of the location parameter of the logistic distribution when samples are complete or censored. Statistische Hefte. 13(1). 41–57. 7 indexed citations

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Chan, Lai K. & Smiley W. Cheng. (1971). On the Student's Test Based on Sample Percentiles from the Normal, Logistic and Cauchy Distribution. Technometrics. 13(1). 127–127.

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