A methodology for determining optimal sampling plans for Bayesian multiattribute acceptance sampling models is developed. Inspections are assumed to be nondestructive and attributes are classified as scrappable or screenable according to the corrective action required when a lot is rejected on a...

The relentless pursuit of increased product quality via continuous improvement is an important long-term strategy for achieving competitive advantage. However, manufacturers must still achieve high product quality in the short run. Hence, short-run quality improvement strategies are necessary,...

Hypertension is one of the most important risk factors with respect to coronary heart disease and stroke. The benefits of early detection of hypertension and the subsequent design of follow-up treatment programs are well documented. Consequently, screening programs have been designed to identify...

A double screening procedure (DSP), which controls for individual unit misclassification error (IME) as well as average outgoing quality (AOQ), for quality control applications is developed. Screening involves selecting items whose performance is within specifications based on observing one or...

Traditional statistical process control charts assume that observations are independent and normally distributed about some mean. We investigate the robustness of traditional charts to data correlation when the correlation can be described by an ARMA(1,1) model. We compare the performance of the...

An interactive goal programming approach for assessing scenario probabilities used in long-range forecasting and decision analysis is developed and illustrated using a small numerical example. The method only requires marginal event probability and ordinal or interval first-order conditional...

"Public agencies are very keen on amassing statistics---they collect them, add them, raise them to the nth power, take the cube root and prepare wonderful diagrams. But what you must never forget is that every one of those figures comes in the first instance from the village watchman, who just...