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Sven Knoth is a Professor of Computational Statistics at the Helmut Schmidt University, the University of the Federal Armed Forces, Hamburg, Germany. His main research areas include statistical process control, implementation of statistical algorithms in software, and applications of statistics in engineering. He has authored more than 60 research papers and he is an Associate Editor of the journals Computational Statistics and Quality Engineering.Wolfgang Schmid is a Professor of Statistics at the European University Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder), Germany. His main research areas include statistical process control, statistics in finance, spatial statistics, and environmetrics. He has authored more than 160 research papers and he is an Associate Editor of Sequential Analysis, AStA Advances in Statistical Analysis, and Journal of Multivariate Analysis. Between 2012-2020 he was the President of the German Statistical Society.

• Part I Statistical Process Control.- Chapter 1.- Use of the Conditional False Alarm Metric in Statistical Process Monitoring.- Chapter 2 Design Considerations and Tradeoffs for Shewhart Control Charts.- Chapter 3 On the Calculation of the ARL for Beta EWMA Control Charts.- Chapter 4 Flexible Monitoring Methods for High-Yield Processes.- Chapter 5 An Average Loss Control Chart Under a Skewed Process Distribution.- Chapter 6 ARL-unbiased CUSUM schemes to monitor binomial counts.- Chapter 7 Statistical Aspects of Target Setting for Attribute Data Monitoring.- Chapter 8 MAV control charts for monitoring two-state processes using indirectly observed binary data.- Chapter 9 Monitoring Image Processes – Overview and Comparison Study.- Chapter 10 Parallelized Monitoring of Dependent Spatiotemporal Processes.- Chapter 11 Product’s Warranty Claim Monitoring under Variable Intensity Rates.- Chapter 12 A Statistical (Process Monitoring) Perspective on Human Performance Modeling in the Age of Cyber-Physical Systems.- Chapter 13 Monitoring Performance of Surgeons Using a New Risk-adjusted Exponentially Weighted Moving Average Control Chart.- Chapter 14 Exploring the usefulness of Functional Data Analysis for Health Surveillance.- Chapter 15 Rapid Detection of Hot-spot by Tensor Decomposition with Application to Weekly Gonorrhea Data.- Chapter 16 An approach to monitoring time between events when events are frequent.- Part II Selected Topics from Statistical Quality Control.- Chapter 17 Analysis of Measurement Precision Experiment with Ordinal Categorical Variables.- Chapter 18 Assessing a Binary Measurement System with Operator and Random Part Effects.- Chapter 19 Concepts, Methods and Tools Enabling Measurement Quality.- Chapter 20 Assessing laboratory effects in key comparisons with two transfer standards measured in two petals: A Bayesian approach.- Chapter 21 Quality control activities are a challenge for reducing variability.- Chapter 22 Is the Benford Law useful for Data Quality Assessment?