We present a method for sequential estimation of the state of infestation of an agricultural crop by a pest arthropod. The method, which is based on Bayesian statistical theory, establishes stopping ...

The problem of how to extend the time interval of fixed time period maintenance for items whose failure can be catastrophic, is considered in this paper. The paper proposes a coherent methodology ...

PROC SURVEYSELECT provides a variety of methods for selecting probability-based random samples. With probability sampling, each unit in the survey population has a known, positive probablity of ...