This paper considers the problem of an acceptance sampling plan for a truncated life test when the lifetime follows the three parameter Kappa distribution. For different acceptance numbers, confidence levels and values of the ratio of the fixed experiment time to the specified lower bound of the...

Effective management and the assessment of quality performance of products is important in modern enterprises. Often, the business performance is measured using the lifetime performance index CL to evaluate the potential of a process, where L is a lower specification limit. In this paper the...

Reliability sampling plans are used to take decisions on the disposition of lots based on life testing of products. Such plans are developed taking into the consideration of relevant probability distributions of the lifetimes of the products under testing. When the quality of products varies...

In this paper we introduce the so-called McDonald Exponentiated Pareto distribution. We provide a number of mathematical properties of this distribution and derive among others expressions for its moment-generating function, the rth moment, and the Renyi entropy. Finally, we present the...

The natural exponential families (NEF) play an important role in many fields of statistics. Two subclasses of NEF have interesting mathematical properties and have therefore been investigated by many researchers. These two subfamilies contain the distributions with quadratic variance function...

In this article , acceptance sampling plans are developed for the Linear Failure Rate Distribution percentiles when the life test is truncated at a pre-specified time. The minimum sample size necessary to ensure the specified life percentile is obtained under a given consumerś risk. The...

In this paper we propose a conditional distribution of the waiting time given the queue length. We assume that the number of customers in a queue, that is the queue length, follows a geometric distribution and the waiting time of a newly arrived customer in a queue follows an exponential...

Control charts for the process average play an important role in process control. In the presence of prior information, using Bayesian approach, one can construct posterior control chart for process average (X̅ posterior control chart). The control limits of the proposed chart are derived under...

In this paper we compare the ordinal rankings generated through Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) methods to ordinal rankings generated by human decision makers. Through eliciting the total rank ordering for approximately 100 individuals on all of the four different datasets of Decision Making...