Confidence Limits for Capability Index Cp

The confidence limits for the Capability Index Cp may be calculated as follows:

where n is the subgroup size.

This calculated value may be added and subtracted from the calculated Cp index to indicate the range of values for Cp expected from random samples of a stable process.

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