Archive for August, 1960

Variations Flow Analysis

NORBERT L. ENRICK* Institute of Textile Technology Charlottesville, Virginia Variations Flow Analysis is a technique of evaluating the transfer of variations in stock, when the product from several machines at one processing stage is fed randomly to the several machines of the succeeding stage. Read more


Saturday, August 6th, 1960

Serial Sampling Acceptance Schemes Derived From Bayes’s Theorem

D. R. Cox Birkbeck College, University of London In many industrial environments it is reasonable to assume that batches of items produced sequentially will be positively correlated. Taking advantage of this assumption it is shown how the sentencing of a batch as good or bad can depend upon the Read more


Saturday, August 6th, 1960

Some Remarks on the Bayesian Solution of the Single Sample Inspection Scheme

G.B. WETHERILL Birkbeck College, University of London Batches of items, assumed independent of one another, are to be sentenced using an acceptance sampling plan based upon a random sample of size n and an acceptance number cn, Granting that the prior distribution of the probability of a Read more


Saturday, August 6th, 1960

The Compound Hypergeometric Distribution and a System of Single Sampling Inspection Plans Based on Prior Distributions and Costs

A. HALD University of Copenhagen The main results of this paper, apart from the limit theorems, were given in two lectures at the University of London, and in a seminar at Imperial College of Science and Technology, London, January 1959. The complete paper was presented for discussion in a Read more


Saturday, August 6th, 1960

A Semigraphical Method for the Analysis of Complex Problems

EDGAR ANDERSON* Curator of Useful Plants, Missouri Botanical Garden and Engehann Professor of Botany, Washington University (St. Louis) Recognizing associations between large numbers of variables is a problem encountered in all the sciences. For this reason the Editor felt that the following Read more


Thursday, August 4th, 1960

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