Abstract
Two statistically based testing procedures, a zero-failure test and a one-failure test, are proposed for demonstrating that a vial capping process has an acceptably low rate of failed seals, i.e., nonintegral container closures, or leaky vials. These tests are developed for use with the standard helium-leak test method that measures the amount of escaped helium from a capped vial. The amount of escaped helium is a continuous measurement, and a vial is said to be leaky if the measurement exceeds a threshold and not leaky if it does not. Not leaky measurements are often less than the lower limit of validation, i.e., left-censored. By using the continuous measurements that describe the extent of leaking instead of the binary measurements, leaky or not leaky, the proposed tests are able to reach similar conclusions as tests using binary measurements but with much smaller sample sizes. The proposed tests can handle any number of measurements less than the lower limit of validation.
- Rule of 3
- one-sided confidence interval
- lower limit of validation (LLOV)
- left-censored data
- significance level
- type 1 error
- zero-failure test
- one-failure test
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