Title
Exact two-sided statistical tolerance limits for sample variances
Date Issued
01 October 2018
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Río de Janeiro
Publisher(s)
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Abstract
Statistical tolerance intervals are widely used in the industry and in various areas of sciences, especially in conformity assessment and acceptance of products or processes in terms of quality. When the interest is in precision, a tolerance interval for the variance is useful. In this paper, we consider two-sided tolerance intervals for the population of sample variances for data that arise from a normal distribution. These intervals are useful in applications where one needs information about process deterioration as well as process improvement, to properly assess product quality. In this paper, the theory for these tolerance intervals is developed and tables for the tolerance factors, required to calculate the proposed tolerance limits, are provided for various settings. Construction and implementation of the proposed tolerance intervals are illustrated using a dataset from a real application. Summary and conclusions are offered.
Start page
1238
End page
1253
Volume
34
Issue
6
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Relaciones Industriales
Estadísticas, Probabilidad
Subjects
DOI
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85050487353
Source
Quality and Reliability Engineering International
ISSN of the container
07488017
Sponsor(s)
This research was partly supported by CAPES (Brazilian Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel) through a national PhD scholarship for the first author as well as by the CNPq (Brazilian Council for Scientific and Technological Development) through project numbers 401523/2014‐4 (for the second author) and 308677/2015‐3 (for the third author). The authors acknowledge the feedback from Professor William Meeker of Iowa State University on an earlier version of the paper.
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