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The extent to which products meet specifications needs to be systematically monitored in a production process. Product quality will typically be defined by two quantities: deviations from stated ...

The Journal of the American Statistical Association (JASA) has long been considered the premier journal of statistical science. Science Citation Index reported JASA was the most highly cited journal ...

GUM, the internationally approved technique for calculating measurement uncertainty, is reliant on the availability of a certified reference sample. Likewise, to find any repeatable offset (systematic ...

Stratified sampling is considered, where (a) the mean integrated squared error (MISE) metric is used in place of the mean squared error (MSE) metric; (b) the entire ...