In developing quality-control procedures, a step-loss function has been used implicitly or explicitly to describe consumer perceptions about product quality. A quadratic loss function has been ...

MADISON, Wis.—A company looking to dig a huge iron mine in far northwestern Wisconsin has submitted a scaled-down sampling plan that would make blasting a last resort. Gogebic Taconite originally ...

Norwegian authorities found problems with the sampling plan of a company linked to a Listeria outbreak in 2022, according to a report. At an inspection in October, the Norwegian Food Safety Authority ...

Lake Charles, LA (KPLC) - For about four decades, a local company has been disposing of hazardous waste at a site near Carlyss. Chemical Waste Management is planning some changes there. According to ...

This map by the Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation shows drinking water wells that tested positive for PFOA in the Bennington area after contamination was detected in 2016. Three years ...

The USDA is planning to reduce some Salmonella testing for poultry products for the coming fiscal year, but that is not necessarily a bad thing. In a 33-page sampling plan for fiscal year 2024, the ...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A company looking to dig a huge iron mine just south of Lake Superior has filed new papers with the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources outlining a bulk sampling plan and ...

We give necessary and sufficient conditions for the second-order inclusion probabilities to be strictly positive under Chao's (1982) sampling plan for some order of arrangement of the population units ...