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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Journal of Probability and Statistics Volume 2012, Article ID 819730, 15 pages doi:10.1155/2012/819730 Research Article Bayesian Estimation of Generalized Process Capability Indices Sudhansu S. Maiti and Mahendra Saha Department of Statistics, Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan 731 235, India Correspondence should be addressed to Sudhansu S. Maiti, dssm1@rediff Received 14 May 2011; Revised 6 December 2011; Accepted 13 December 2011 Academic Editor: Shein-chung Chow Copyright q 2012 S. S. Maiti and M. Saha. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Process capability indices PCIs aim to quantify the capability of a process of quality characteristic X to meet some specifications that are related to a measurable characteristic of its produced items. One such quality characteristic is life time of items. The specifications are determined through the lower specification limit L, the upper specification limit U, and the target value T. Maiti et al. 2010 have proposed a generalized process capability index that is the ratio of proportion of specification conformance to proportion of desired conformance. Bayesian estimation of the index has been considered under squared error loss function. Normal, exponential nonnormal, and Poisson discrete processes have been taken into account. Bayes estimates of the index have been compared with the frequentist counterparts. Data sets have been analyzed. 1. Introduction The purpose of process capability index PCI is to provide a numerical measure on whether a production process is capable of producing items within the specification lim