Statistical Process Control (SPC) Methods. Statistical process control (SPC) monitors specified quality characteristics of a product or service so as: To detect whether the process has changed in a way that will affect product quality and. To measure the current quality of products or services. Control is maintained through the use of control charts.
The underlying basis of criticism of GDP as a measure of welfare is the divergence between the critic's values and market values. The critics make an implicit assumption, or, quite possibly, a conscious presumption, that the former values are superior, if not far superior, to those of the latter.
What it is: Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is the broadest quantitative measure of a nation's total economic activity. More specifically, GDP represents the monetary value of all goods and services produced within a nation's geographic borders over a specified period of time.