Notation and Numerical Calculations for No Trend Over Time
Notation | Formula | Calculated Value |
---|---|---|
Confidence level | 100(1 − α)% | 95% (α = 0.05) |
Percentage covered | 100P% | 99% (P = 0.99) |
Standard normal quantile | ZP (P is the area to the left) | Z0.99 = 2.326 |
Number of lots | I | 11 |
Lot degrees of freedom | s = I − 1 | 10 |
Error degrees of freedom | ![]() | 15 |
Harmonic mean of the number of values in each lot | ![]() | 1.454 |
Unweighted sample mean of lot means | ![]() | 71.206 |
Sample variance of lot means | ![]() | 5.917 |
Mean squared error | ![]() | 3.636 |
Estimated variance of Ȳ* | ![]() | 0.538 |
Estimated variance of Y = σA2 + σE2 | ![]() | 7.052 |
Effective sample size | ![]() | 13.110 |
Upper bound on variance of Y | ![]() | 16.232 |
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, respectively | H1 = s/χα:s2 − 1 | 1.538 |
H2 = r/χα:r2 − 1 | 1.066 | |
Lower bound on one-sided tolerance interval | Equation 2 | L1 = 60.63 |
Upper bound on one-sided tolerance interval | Equation 3 | U1 = 81.78 |
Lower and upper on two-sided tolerance interval | Equation 4 | L2 = 60.44 U2 = 81.97 |
Lower and upper one-sided bounds using HK1 adjustment of two-sided tolerance interval | Equation 4 replacing ![]() | L1,HK1 = 61.48, U1,HK1 = 80.92 |