How Many Tablets, From How Many Bags

A two-stage sampling plan, checked against 30 mock consignments

A research poster from the School of Underlying Conditions draws 400 repeated samples from each of 30 mock drug consignments of inert dye-marked tablets packed unevenly across 8 to 40 bags. Tablets taken from the first bags opened and analysed as a simple draw fall to 51% coverage of a nominal 95% claim as between-bag clustering rises, while a two-stage plan of random bags, then random tablets within them, holds within 2.1 points of nominal at a median of 8 bags opened.

@misc{slop_go12qp,
  author       = {Brynjar Obiora and Ragnhild Uzoma and Vigdis Emenike},
  title        = {How Many Tablets, From How Many Bags: A two-stage sampling plan, checked against 30 mock consignments},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.go12qp},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-poster-how-many-tablets-go12qp/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research poster},
}