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the minimum cost is obtained at a 1 = 10.<br />
The Visual Basic program as Excel Macro “Costcalculation” for obtaining the cost as relevant<br />
to Figure 3.1.3 has been included at the end of this chapter. The output of the programme<br />
is the cost of an A kind plan with a 2 = 25, n = 250, N = 30000, and for a 1 = 5(1)20 for the<br />
cost parameters and parameters of the prior gamma distribution as given in this section.<br />
For N = 30000, the optimal C kind plan has sample size n = 250 and <strong>acceptance</strong> numbers<br />
c 1 = 8, c 2 = 30.<br />
We have therefore, demonstrated that it should be possible to obtain an optimal MASSP<br />
by the above methods. While doing so, it should be noted that the Bayesian solutions rest<br />
on the assumption that the prior distribution is stable and that no outliers occur, so that<br />
for small and medium lot sizes the Bayesian <strong>plans</strong> will often reduce to ‘accept without inspection’<br />
[Hald (1981)]. It is, however, clear that the choice of <strong>acceptance</strong> criterion does<br />
affect the costs of optimal MASSP’s. However, in the present chapter we do not attempt<br />
at obtaining general theoretical results for choosing the <strong>acceptance</strong> criteria as in the case of<br />
discrete prior distributions.<br />
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