THE INSPECTION OF ACCEPTANCE SAMPLING FOR STEP-STRESS TESTS WITH AN EQUALLY-SPACED INTERVAL CENSORING SCHEME

Abstract

For reducing the experimental time and considering the purpose of administrative convenience, the article establishes an acceptance sampling procedure for the Rayleigh lifetime distribution under a step-stress test with an equally-spaced interval censoring scheme. Both producer and consumer risks are considered and an algorithm is provided to develop the ordinary acceptance sampling plans. A numerical study is conducted for evaluating the performance of the proposed method. Moreover, a numerical example is used for illustration.