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Asked: 2026-06-04T14:14:47+00:00

I currently use R routinely for statistical process control . With this I can

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I currently use R routinely for statistical process control. With this I can produce control charts such as EWMA, Shewhart, CUSUM and GAM / Loess smoothing.

Does anyone know of the best way to do these types of charts using Python? I initially looked at scikits.timeseries but it has been canned to contribute to pandas.

I had a look at pandas and although it does have EWMA functionality, I need a little bit more.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Just found this package that has not been updated in a while, but works so far in Python 2.7.3 (on 64-bit Windows 7, using pretty up-to-date supporting packages):

    In [1]: import spc
In [2]: import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
In [3]: x = [25,19,14,17,25,39,49,6,11,19,13,26,24,32,14,19]
In [4]: cc = spc.Spc(x, spc.CHART_X_MR_X)
In [5]: cc.get_chart()
In [6]: plt.show()

    enter image description here

    Looks like the 6th point is outside the upper control limit…

    In [7]: cc.get_violating_points()
Out[7]: {'1 beyond 3*sigma': [6]}

    The package is basically a single init.py file that is only a few hundred source lines, and looks to implement more than a dozen charts, including CUSUM.

    Lastly, there is a github project worth keeping an eye on: https://github.com/bwghughes/controlchart

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