In 2007, there were 33.2 million people around the world living with HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS/WHO, 2007). In May 2003, the U.S. President announced a global program, known as the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), to address this epidemic. We seek to estimate patient mortality in PEPFAR in an effort to monitor and evaluate this program. This effort, however, is hampered by loss to fol...

A common activity associated with many decommissioning projects is the clearance (release) of materials for unrestricted use. Conventionally, the clearance process involves 100% survey of all the material being released. Survey activities include scans, direct measurements of total surface activity, and smears for removable activity. Surveying 100% of the material is time-consuming and expensiv...

Skip-lot sampling plans have been widely used in industries to reduce the inspection efforts when products have good quality records. These schemes are known as economically advantageous and useful to minimize the cost of the inspection of the final lots. A new system of skip-lot sampling plan called SkSP-R is proposed in this paper. The performance measures for the proposed SkSP-R plan are der...

This paper presents the procedure for the construction and selection of mixed sampling plan (MSP) using Intervened Random effect Poisson Distribution (IRPD) as a baseline distribution. The plans are constructed through limiting quality level (LQL) and maximum allowable percent defective (MAPD) having the single sampling plan as attribute plan,. Tables are constructed for easy selection of the p...