January 2018
Intermediate to advanced
480 pages
236h 9m
English
All sampling plans are devised to provide a specified producer’s and consumer’s risk. However, it is in the consumer’s best interest to keep the average number of items inspected (ANI) to a minimum because that keeps the cost of inspection low. Sampling plans differ with respect to ANI. Three often-used attribute sampling plans are the single-sampling plan, the double-sampling plan, and the sequential-sampling plan. Analogous plans also have been devised for variable measures of quality.
The single-sampling plan is a decision rule to accept or reject a lot based on the results of one random sample from the lot. The procedure is to take a random sample of size (n) and inspect each item. If the number of defects ...