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Hindawi Publishing Corporation International Journal of Quality, Statistics, and Reliability Volume 2012, Article ID 147520, 10 pages doi:10.1155/2012/147520 Research Article A Nonparametric Shewhart-Type Quality Control Chart for Monitoring Broad Changes in a Process Distribution Saad T. Bakir College of Business Administration, Alabama State University, P.O. Box 271, Montgomery, AL 36101, USA Correspondence should be addressed to Saad T. Bakir, bakir00@ Received 7 May 2012; Revised 17 July 2012; Accepted 22 July 2012 Academic Editor: Xiaohu Li Copyright © 2012 Saad T. Bakir. 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. This paper develops a distribution-free (or nonparametric) Shewhart-type statistical quality control chart for detecting a broad change in the probability distribution of a process. The proposed chart is designed for grouped observations, and it requires the availability of a reference (or training) sample of observations taken when the process was operating in-control. The charting statistic is a modified version of the two-sample Kolmogorov-Smirnov test statistic that allows the exact calculation of the condi- tional average run length using the binomial distribution. Unlike the traditional distribution-based control charts (such as the Shewhart X-Bar), the proposed chart maintains the same control limits and the in-control average run length over the class of all (symmetric or asymmetric) continuous probability distributions. The proposed chart aims at monitoring a broad, rather than a one-parameter, change in a process distribution. Simulation studies show that the chart is more robust against in