TABLE I

Notation and Numerical Calculations for No Trend Over Time

NotationFormulaCalculated Value
Confidence level100(1 − α)%95% (α = 0.05)
Percentage covered100P%99% (P = 0.99)
Standard normal quantileZP (P is the area to the left)Z0.99 = 2.326
Number of lotsI11
Lot degrees of freedoms = I − 110
Error degrees of freedomFormula15
Harmonic mean of the number of values in each lotFormula1.454
Unweighted sample mean of lot meansFormula71.206
Sample variance of lot meansFormula5.917
Mean squared errorFormula3.636
Estimated variance of Ȳ*Formula0.538
Estimated variance of Y = σA2 + σE2Formula7.052
Effective sample sizeFormula13.110
Upper bound on variance of YFormula16.232
Constants used to compute U where χα:s2 and χα:r2 are chi-squared percentiles with area α to the left and s and r degrees of freedom, respectivelyH1 = s/χα:s2 − 11.538
H2 = rα:r2 − 11.066
Lower bound on one-sided tolerance intervalEquation 2L1 = 60.63
Upper bound on one-sided tolerance intervalEquation 3U1 = 81.78
Lower and upper on two-sided tolerance intervalEquation 4L2 = 60.44 U2 = 81.97
Lower and upper one-sided bounds using HK1 adjustment of two-sided tolerance intervalEquation 4 replacing Formula with ZPL1,HK1 = 61.48, U1,HK1 = 80.92