ABSTRACT
This chapter provides an overview of the different kinds of acceptance sampling. It focuses on procedures for attributes and acceptance sampling for variables. The chapter presents the case of univariate acceptance sampling; in other words, only the case of one single quality characteristic. It describes acceptance sampling for variables or acceptance control for measurements. Acceptance sampling uses a random sample as a basis for assessing the quality of a finite population of units. Quality control assesses whether and to what extent goods – or services – are fulfilling certain requirements that relate to their fitness of use. The dichotomous test characteristic “quality of unit” has a Bernoulli distribution, and the total number of defective units in the sample has a hypergeometric distribution if the units are randomly sampled without replacement, or a binomial distribution if the units are sampled with replacement.
