Abstract:
Many Statistical Process Control (SPC) techniques such as Control charts, Acceptance Sampling plans and Process Capability, require that the quality characteristic of interest follow a normal distribution. However in many applications of Acceptable Sampling Plans, the distribution of the quality characteristic is not known. Recently, Suresh and Ramanathan (1997) proposed a sampling plan when the distribution of the quality characteristic belongs to a class of distributions, which include a wide a range of symmetric distributions. In this paper, we review this method and examine whether the procedure is robust in the class of symmetric distributions.
