Acessibilidade / Reportar erro

Bayesian evaluation of inspectors in statistical attributes control

When testing for attributes, it is important to assess the inspectors' efficiency as they judge the product quality by classifying it as conforming or non-conforming. This work presents a bayesian method for evaluating sensory inspectors, including discussions about situations in which classifications are made for which the real state of the product is not known.

quality control; attribute sampling; classification error; evaluation of inspectors; bayesian inference


Universidade Federal de São Carlos Departamento de Engenharia de Produção , Caixa Postal 676 , 13.565-905 São Carlos SP Brazil, Tel.: +55 16 3351 8471 - São Carlos - SP - Brazil
E-mail: gp@dep.ufscar.br