MCUSUM Chart

The Multivariate CUSUM (MCUSUM) Chart is a sequential monitoring scheme designed to detect small, persistent mean shifts in a process characterized by multiple correlated quality variables simultaneously. Introduced by Robert Crosier in 1988, it extends the classical univariate CUSUM principle to the multivariate setting by accumulating a vector-valued sum of deviations from the in-control mean, scaled by the process covariance structure, and comparing a scalar norm of that cumulative sum against a control limit.