A Problem Called ISO 2859-1 Sampling Procedures for Inspection by Attributes - Part 1

Controlling uncertainty has an ever-increasing importance in all areas of industry. To meet the demand, the International Organisation of Standardization (ISO) developed and develops “statistical” standards. However, while success and failure of technical standards can be assessed rather easily, this is different with statistical methods because of randomness. Moreover, rationale and purpose of statistical methods are often vague. This paper analyzes one of the most frequently applied statistical standards namely ISO 2859-1 (1999). The aim of this investigation is