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In quality control, the statistical procedure employed in determining whether to accept or reject a production batch. If the proportion of the units having a certain negative characteristic exceeds the acceptable limit for a given batch, it is rejected. Two types of acceptance sampling are (1) Attributes sampling, in which the presence or absence of a characteristic in the inspected item is only taken note of, and (2) Variable sampling, in which the presence or absence of a characteristic in the inspected item is measured on a predetermined scale.
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acceptance sampling is in the Industries, Manufacturing, & Technology, Quality Control & Management and Statistics, Mathematics, & Analysis subjects.
acceptance sampling appears in the definitions of the following terms: average outgoing quality limit and attribute sampling
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