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The acceptance sampling plan (ASP) is a statistical tool used in industry for quality control to determine the quality of products by selecting a specified number for testing in order to accept or ...

Figure 1: Sampling strategy to capture single-cell heterogeneity. We applied our approach to explore sampling strategies for studies of heterogeneity in microscopy. The ability to simultaneously ...