Visualizing and Assessing Acceptance Sampling Plans: The R Package AcceptanceSampling

Abstract

Manufacturers and government agencies frequently use acceptance sampling to decide whether a lot from a supplier or exporting country should be accepted or rejected. International standards on acceptance sampling provide sampling plans for specific circumstances.The aim of this package is to provide an easy-to-use interface to visualize single, double or multiple sampling plans. In addition, methods have been provided to enable the user to assess sampling plans against pre-specified levels of performance, as measured by the probability of acceptance for a given level of quality in the lot.

Keywords

• operating characteristic
• oc curve
• defectivel defect
• non-conforming item
• non-conformity
• single sampling
• double sampling
• multiple sampling
• attributes sampling
• 2-class
• variables S4 methods