The CCC-r chart is developed based on cumulative count of a conforming (CCC) control chart that considers the cumulative number of items inspected until observing r nonconforming ones. Typically, the samples obtained from the process are analyzed through 100% inspection to exploit the CCC-r chart. However, considering the inspection cost and time would limit its implementation. In this paper, w...

BACKGROUND Tropical forests provide a crucial carbon sink for a sizable portion of annual global CO2 emissions. Policies that incentivize tropical forest conservation by monetizing forest carbon ultimately depend on accurate estimates of national carbon stocks, which are often based on field inventory sampling. As an exercise to understand the limitations of field inventory sampling, we tested ...

The snowflake plot is a scatter plot that displays relative timings of three neurons. It has had rather limited use since its introduction by Perkel, Gerstein, Smith, and Tatton (1975), in part because its triangular coordinates are unfamiliar and its theoretical properties are not well studied. In this letter, we study certain quantitative properties of this plot: we use projections to relate ...

One way to sample from a distribution is to sample uniformly from the region under the plot of its density function. A Markov chain that converges to this uniform distribution can be constructed by alternating uniform sampling in the vertical direction with uniform sampling from the horizontaìslice' deened by the current vertical position. Variations on such`slice sampling' methods can easily b...

This paper discussed Bayesian variable selection methods for models from split-plot mixture designs using samples Metropolis-Hastings within the Gibbs sampling algorithm. is easy to implement due improvement in computing via MCMC sampling. We described methodology by introducing framework, and explaining Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) The was used draw dependent full conditional distributions ...

Respiration rates and chemical characteristics of soil organic layers were measured at 40 experimental plots, 5 sampling sites per plot, in a moderately polluted Niepołomice Forest, S. Poland. The respiration rate was positively related to pH, water content and concentrations of Ca and K, and negatively to Ntot, Zn and Pb (p < 0.001 for all variables). No significant correlation was found betwe...

In dynamic semantics three styles of quanti cation have been proposed that can be seen to involve two di erent ways of interpreting free and quanti ed variables: Variables as denoting single partial objects; Variables as ranging over a number of alternative total objects. I will show that the rst view leads to problems of underspeci cation and the second to problems of overspeci cation. I will ...

Building on the successful application in the laboratory of PLOT-cryoadsorption as a means of collecting vapor (or headspace) samples for chromatographic analysis, in this paper a field portable apparatus is introduced. This device fits inside of a briefcase (aluminum tool carrier), and can be easily transported by vehicle or by air. The portable apparatus functions entirely on compressed air, ...