Multivariate control charts are commonly used in manufacturing engineering to identify abnormal changes in the process. In a high-dimensional paradigm, where the number of variables (p) exceeds the number of Phase I subgroups (m), the sample covariance matrix is ill-conditioned and will become singular. This situation makes the classical T 2 control chart inefficient and even invalid to employ for monitoring a mean vector in statistical process control. This study proposes a new multivariate shrinkage-based diagonal T 2 control chart for high dimensional data, where p is very large compared to m with individual observation. A shrinkage estimator is used to estimate a diagonal covariance matrix to obtain an invertible, well-conditioned, and efficient estimate of the sample covariance matrix. The proposal's performance is also evaluated using the probability of detecting a shift. A simulation study reveals that the proposed control chart has an efficient sensitivity in detecting shifts for the high dimensional data. Results also show that m has a minor effect on the probability of shift detection for out-of-control data. In general, this probability improves for larger p, when shift is introduced in all p.
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