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p Chart — Call Abandon Rate

Twenty-one days of abandoned calls against a daily volume that swings from 780 to 1,540, giving stepped binomial limits around a 5.1% centre line and isolating the storm-day spike as the only genuine special cause.

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Call abandon rate — support queuep chart · 21 points · fraction abandoned · Nelson rules 1, 2, 5, 6p chart — fraction nonconforming0.0250.0500.0750.10016UCL 0.0712 avgCL 0.0512LCL 0.0312 avgSample size — the reason the limits step8001000120014001600mean 1134.9123456789101112131415161718192021Out of control — 2 of 21 points flagged by rules 1, 6.Rule 1 · p at point 14 = 0.1138 — 1 point beyond a 3σ limitRule 6 · p at point 20 = 0.0370 — 4 of 5 points beyond 1σ on the same side

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title "Call abandon rate — support queue"
chart p
unit "fraction abandoned"
# Only the classic four rules: on a daily operational chart the
# zone rules fire often enough to train people to ignore the chart.
rules: 1, 2, 5, 6
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# Storm outage — one queue lost its overflow route for four hours.
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