The methods presented in this paper provide an improved technique for fitting a continuous function to discontinuous step functions so often evolving from empirical studies such as estimation of ...

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In developing quality-control procedures, a step-loss function has been used implicitly or explicitly to describe consumer perceptions about product quality. A quadratic loss function has been ...