This work determines the best technique, sampling unit and the number of samples to compose a sampling plan for Frankliniella schultzei (Trybom) and Thrips palmi (Karny) (Thysanoptera: Thripidae) on cucumber. The efficacy of three sampling techniques: leaf beating on a plastic tray, direct counting of insects on the lower leaf surface, and whole leaf collection in bags were compared in nine com...

Abstract: All classical acceptance sampling plans were constructed with the proportion of defective that is crisp value. In the manufacturing processes, this parameter in a production lot may not be precis ely known. Hence it is meaningful to treat such parameter as fuzzy quantities. In this paper we have argued for the acceptance double sampling plan when the proportion of defective items is a...

In this article, a novel acceptance-sampling plan is proposed to decide whether to accept or reject a receiving batch of items. In this plan, the items in the receiving batch are inspected until a nonconforming item is found. When the sum of two consecutive values of the number of conforming items between two successive nonconforming items falls underneath of a lower control threshold, the batc...

Extended Abstract. Let Xi1 ,..., Xini   ,i=1,2,3,....,k  be independent random samples from distribution $F^{alpha_i}$،  i=1,...,k, where F is an absolutely continuous distribution function and $alpha_i>0$ Also, suppose that these samples are independent. Let Mi,ni and  M'i,ni  respectively, denote the maximum and minimum of the ith sa...

in zero acceptance number sampling plans, the sample items of an incoming lot are inspected one by one. the proposed method in this research follows these rules: if the number of nonconforming items in the first sample is equal to zero, the lot is accepted but if the number of nonconforming items is equal to one, then second sample is taken and the policy of zero acceptance number would be appl...

Abstract: A stratified sampling plan to audit health insurance claims is offered. The stratification is by dollar amount of the claim. The plan is representative in the sense that with high probability for each stratum, the difference in the average dollar amount of the claim in the sample and the average dollar amount in the population, is “small.” Several notions of “small” are presented. The...

Self-folding robot is usually modeled as rigid origami, a class of origami whose entire surface remains rigid during folding except at crease lines. In this work, we focus on finding valid folding motion that brings the origami from the unfolded state continuously to the folded state. Although recent computational methods allow rapid simulation of folding process of certain rigid origamis, thes...

in acceptance-sampling plans, the items of an incoming lot are inspected one by one. if the number of nonconforming items in sample is equal zero, the lot is accepted but if the number of nonconforming items is equal to one, then second sample is taken and the policy of zero acceptance number would be applied for the second sample. in this paper, a mathematical model is developed to design sing...

Balanced sampling plan excluding contiguous units (or BSEC for short) was rst introduced by Hedayat, Rao and Stufken in 1988. These designs can be used for survey sampling when the units are arranged in one-dimensional ordering and the contiguous units in this ordering provide similar information. The properties and constructions of these objects were discussed in several papers, however, the e...

The design of acceptance sampling plans for hybrid exponential distribution under a truncated life test is considered in this paper. In this work, experimental values are treated as observed values of exponential random variables whose mean is assumed to be a fuzzy variable in the sense of Liu [25]. A new chance distribution called hybrid exponential distribution is considered in this paper and...