Re: quality control

On 12 Nov 2006 17:00:04 -0800, "Frank" <deps_bear@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

If I know a product fails .01% of the time and I have 1500 items I'm
running through a process. How many items do I need to check with,
say, 99% confidence that all the items are built correctly.

How many failures do you expect? Almost always, zero.
This is dealing with exact probabilities. For a higher failure
rate, you might want to look at the p of success, and raise
to a power, e.g., (.9999)^n . For the tiny p of 0.01%,
the figuring can be pretty much additive

You want to have only so many items *unchecked* that there
will be, on the average, only 1 bad item in 100 samplings --
so that 99 times out 100, there will be none.

You expect 1 failure in 10,000. One hundred samplings
that each fail to test 100 items will meet that condition.
So you need to check 1400 of each 1500.


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