Sampling Plans for Control-Inspection Schemes Under Independent and Dependent Sampling Designs With Applications to Photovoltaics

摘要

The evaluation of produced items at the time of delivery is, in practice,usually amended by at least one inspection at later time points. We extend themethodology of acceptance sampling for variables for arbitrary unknowndistributions when additional sampling infor- mation is available to suchsettings. Based on appropriate approximations of the operating characteristic,we derive new acceptance sampling plans that control the overall operatingcharacteristic. The results cover the case of independent sampling as well asthe case of dependent sampling. In particular, we study a modified panelsampling design and the case of spatial batch sampling. The latter is advisablein photovoltaic field monitoring studies, since it allows to detect and analyzelocal clusters of degraded or damaged modules. Some finite sample propertiesare examined by a simulation study, focusing on the accuracy of estimation.