Specifications & Support Information:

Sections:

1. TSS Sequential Sampling Plans
2. Using Simulation to Validate TSS. 
3. Results for TSS Unknown-Sigma Plans.
4. Results for TSS Known-Sigma Plans.
   

1  TSS Sequential Sampling Plans:

TSS is a method of developing sequential decision rules. The TSS application to situations with unknown standard deviation is different enough from the known-sigma technique to warrant separate analyses for the two. 

2  Using Simulation to Validate TSS:

Sampling plans were applied to "artificial" data. MS-Excel was used to produce the data as random samples from a specified normal distribution. The following TSS sampling plan for unknown standard deviation was simulated with Excel: 

PROCEDURE: The decisions of the TSS sampling plan were compared to the decisions of the matched fixed-n plan. Both plans had the same LISL, alpha, beta, AQL, and RQL. Both types of sampling plan received the same samples.

The accept/reject decisions were carried out with populations at the AQL and RQL points. The Excel program made three runs of 10,000 decisions  each at the AQL and three similar runs at the RQL. 

Each accept/reject decision involved generating fixed-n=21 data points.  

The probability of acceptance for each point (mean) on the oc curve was calculated as Pa = (number of acceptances)/(total decisions).

3  Results for TSS Unknown-Sigma Plans:

Table 1: The numbers in the body of the table represent measurements by simulation of the producers risk (alpha). 

Discussion: in table 1, the TSS and Fixed-n probabilities are close to the specified producers risk of 0.05. 

Table 2: The numbers in the body of the table represent measurements by simulation of the consumers risk (beta). 

Discussion: In table 2, the TSS and Fixed-n probabilities are close to the specified consumers risk of 0.05. 

4  Results for TSS Known-Sigma plans:

The computer program SAS (Statistical Analysis System) was used by 3M Company to simulate known-sigma TSS sampling plans.  The OC-Curve and the ASN-curve were simulated at eleven points (population means) each. At each point, the SAS program made 5,000 decisions for TSS sequential, Fixed-n, and SPR sequential sampling plans. 

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