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Acceptance sampling by lots

Except in some specialised cases, acceptance-sampling by lots is deprecated as it:

• is never representative of an unstable process
• can destabilise a stable process.

A fuller discussion is found under "The Fallacy of Acceptance Sampling" at p341 of Wheeler & Chambers (1992).

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