Acceptance sampling plan based on difference in difference estimator with application

• Published in: Scientific reports Vol. 13; no. 1; p. 22305
• Main Authors: Azam, Muhammad, Khan, Maira Ahsan, Arshad, Asma, Saleem, Muhammad, Aslam, Muhammad
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 15-12-2023; Nature Publishing Group; Nature Portfolio
• Subjects: 639/301; 639/925; Decision making; Design; Humanities and Social Sciences; multidisciplinary; Sample size; Sampling; Science; Science (multidisciplinary); Statistical process control; Statistics; Teaching methods; Variables
• ISSN: 2045-2322; 2045-2322
• DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-49786-8

An acceptance sampling plan has been designed in this study based on the Difference-in-Difference estimator. This plan is designed for the inspection of those product units whose life follows the normal distribution. The operating characteristic function is discussed for the two respective cases of the standard deviation known and unknown. The parameters of the proposed plan are determined by minimizing the sample size and followed by the satisfying optimization rule. The results are computed and tabulated for various parametric combinations of acceptable quality levels and limiting quality levels. The computations are performed by using R statistical programming software for all respective cases. The real-life application of the proposed sampling plan has been discussed and elaborated in detail.