This passes the interocular trauma test (it hits you between the eyes).
Peter Peter L. Flom, PhD Assistant Director, Statistics and Data Analysis Core Center for Drug Use and HIV Research National Development and Research Institutes 71 W. 23rd St www.peterflom.com New York, NY 10010 (212) 845-4485 (voice) (917) 438-0894 (fax) >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 4/18/2004 9:48:42 PM >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Manola) wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... > I work for a processing company. > > We have widgets that we believe to be out of specification. Using > sampling tables, we determined that our sampling size should be 800 > widgets. > > Ahead we went measuring and measuring, and after going through 200 > widgets we have seen that every single one is out of spec. At this > point we question if it is necessary to continue or if it is OK to > stop. If we draw a conclusion now, how confident can we be? . . ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at: . http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ . =================================================================
