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Revision as of 11:15, 21 March 2009
Control limits are horizontal lines drawn on an statistical process control chart, usually at a distance of ±3 standard deviations of the plotted statistic from the statistic's mean.
For normally distributed statistics, the area bracketed by the control limits will on average contain 99.73% of all the plot points on the chart, as long as the process is and remains in statistical control.
Control limits should not be confused with tolerance limits, which are completely independent of the distribution of the plotted sample statistic.