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| A '''tolerance interval''' is a [[statistical interval]] within which, with some confidence level, a specified proportion of a sampled population falls. "More specifically, a 100×p%/100×(1−α) tolerance interval provides limits within which at least a certain proportion (p) of the population falls with a given level of confidence (1−α)."<ref>D. S. Young (2010), Book Reviews: "Statistical Tolerance Regions: Theory, Applications, and Computation", TECHNOMETRICS, FEBRUARY 2010, VOL. 52, NO. 1, pp.143-144.</ref> "A (p, 1−α) tolerance interval (TI) based on a sample is constructed so that it would include at least a proportion p of the sampled population with confidence 1−α; such a TI is usually referred to as p-content − (1−α) coverage TI."<ref name=Krishnamoorthy2011>Krishnamoorthy, K. and Lian, Xiaodong(2011) 'Closed-form approximate tolerance intervals for some general linear models and comparison studies', Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation,, First published on: 13 June 2011 doi:10.1080/00949655.2010.545061</ref> "A (p, 1−α) upper '''tolerance limit''' (TL) is simply an 1−α upper [[confidence limit]] for the 100 p [[percentile]] of the population."<ref name=Krishnamoorthy2011/>
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| A tolerance interval can be seen as a statistical version of a [[probability interval]]. "In the parameters-known case, a 95% tolerance interval and a 95% prediction interval are the same."<ref name="Ryan2007">{{cite book|author=Thomas P. Ryan|title=Modern Engineering Statistics|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=aZn7XNphKcgC&pg=PA222|accessdate=22 February 2013|date=22 June 2007|publisher=John Wiley & Sons|isbn=978-0-470-12843-5|pages=222–}}</ref> If we knew a population's exact parameters, we would be able to compute a range within which a certain proportion of the population falls. For example, if we know a population is [[normal distribution|normally distributed]] with [[mean]] <math>\mu</math> and [[standard deviation]] <math>\sigma</math>, then the interval <math>\mu \pm 1.96\sigma</math> includes 95% of the population (1.96 is the [[z-score]] for 95% coverage of a normally distributed population).
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| However, if we have only a sample from the population, we know only the [[sample mean]] <math>\hat{\mu}</math> and sample standard deviation <math>\hat{\sigma}</math>, which are only estimates of the true parameters. In that case, <math>\hat{\mu} \pm 1.96\hat{\sigma}</math> will not necessarily include 95% of the population, due to variance in these estimates. A tolerance interval bounds this variance by introducing a confidence level <math>\gamma</math>, which is the confidence with which this interval actually includes the specified proportion of the population. For a normally distributed population, a z-score can be transformed into a "''k'' factor" or '''tolerance factor'''<ref>{{cite web |title= Statistical interpretation of data — Part 6: Determination of statistical tolerance intervals |publisher= ISO 16269-6|year= 2005 |page= 64}}</ref> for a given <math>\gamma</math> via lookup tables or several approximation formulas.<ref>{{cite book | chapter = Tolerance intervals for a normal distribution | url = http://www.itl.nist.gov/div898/handbook/prc/section2/prc263.htm | title = Engineering Statistics Handbook | publisher = NIST/Sematech | year = 2010 | accessdate = 2011-08-26}}</ref> "As the degrees of freedom approach infinity, the prediction and tolerance intervals become equal."<ref name=Example2006>{{Cite doi|10.1016/j.chemolab.2007.03.002}}</ref>
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| ==Relation to other intervals==
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| The tolerance interval is less widely known than the [[confidence interval]] and [[prediction interval]], a situation some educators have lamented, as it can lead to misuse of the other intervals where a tolerance interval is more appropriate.<ref name=vardeman>{{cite journal | author = Stephen B. Vardeman | title = What about the Other Intervals? | journal = The American Statistician | volume = 46 | issue = 3 | year = 1992 | pages = 193–197 | jstor = 2685212}}</ref><ref name=nelson>{{cite web | author = Mark J. Nelson | title = You might want a tolerance interval | url = http://www.kmjn.org/notes/tolerance_intervals.html | date = 2011-08-14 | accessdate = 2011-08-26}}</ref>
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| The tolerance interval differs from a [[confidence interval]] in that the confidence interval bounds a single-valued population parameter (the [[mean]] or the [[variance]], for example) with some confidence, while the tolerance interval bounds the range of data values that includes a specific proportion of the population. Whereas a confidence interval's size is entirely due to sampling error, and will approach a zero-width interval at the true population parameter as sample size increases, a tolerance interval's size is due partly to sampling error and partly to actual variance in the population, and will approach the population's probability interval as sample size increases.<ref name=vardeman /><ref name=nelson />
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| The tolerance interval is related to a [[prediction interval]] in that both put bounds on variation in future samples. The prediction interval only bounds a single future sample, however, whereas a tolerance interval bounds the entire population (equivalently, an arbitrary sequence of future samples). In other words, a prediction interval covers a specified proportion of a population ''on average'', whereas a tolerance interval covers it ''with a certain confidence level'', making the tolerance interval more appropriate if a single interval is intended to bound multiple future samples.<ref name=nelson /><ref name=Krishnamoorthy>{{cite book | author = K. Krishnamoorthy and [[Thomas Mathew]] | title = Statistical Tolerance Regions: Theory, Applications, and Computation | publisher = John Wiley and Sons | year = 2009 | isbn = 0-470-38026-8 | pages = 1–6}}</ref>
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| ===Examples===
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| <ref name=vardeman/> gives the following example: <blockquote>So consider once again a proverbial [[United States Environmental Protection Agency|EPA]] [[Fuel economy in automobiles|mileage]] test scenario, in which several nominally identical autos of a particular model are tested to produce mileage figures <math>y_1, y_2, ..., y_n</math>. If such data are processed to produce a 95% confidence interval for the mean mileage of the model, it is, for example, possible to use it to project the mean or total gasoline consumption for the manufactured fleet of such autos over their first 5,000 miles of use. Such an interval, would however, not be of much help to a person renting one of these cars and wondering whether the (full) 10-gallon tank of gas will suffice to carry him the 350 miles to his destination. For that job, a prediction interval would be much more useful. (Consider the differing implications of being "95% sure" that <math>\mu \ge 35</math> as opposed to being "95% sure" that <math>y_{n+1} \ge 35</math>.) But neither a confidence interval for <math>\mu</math> nor a prediction interval for a single additional mileage is exactly what is needed by a design engineer charged with determining how large a gas tank the model really needs to guarantee that 99% of the autos produced will have a 400-mile cruising range. What the engineer really needs is a tolerance interval for a fraction <math>p = .99</math> of mileages of such autos.</blockquote>
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| Another example is given by:<ref name=Krishnamoorthy/> <blockquote>The air lead levels were collected from n=15 different areas within the facility. It was noted that the log-transformed lead levels fitted a normal distribution well (that is, the data are from a lognormal distribution). Let mu and sigma^2, respectively, denote the population mean and variance for the log-transformed data. If X denotes the corresponding random variable, we thus have X ~ N(mu, sigma^2). We note that exp(mu) is the median air lead level. A confidence interval for mu can be constructed the usual way, based on the [[t-distribution]]; this in turn will provide a confidence interval for the median air lead level. If <math>\bar{X}</math> and S denote the sample mean and standard deviation of the log-transformed data for a sample of size n, a 95% confidence interval for mu is given by <math>\bar{X} \pm t_{n-1,0.975} S / \sqrt(n)</math>, where <math>t_{m,1-\alpha}</math> denotes the 1-alpha quantile of a [[t-distribution]] with m degrees of freedom. It may also be of interest to derive a 95% upper confidence bound for the median air lead level. Such a bound for mu is given by <math>\bar{X} + t_{n-1,0.95} S / \sqrt{n}</math>. Consequently, a 95% upper confidence bound for the median air lead is given by <math>\exp{\left( \bar{X} + t_{n-1,0.95} S / \sqrt{n} \right)}</math>. Now suppose we want to predict the air lead level at a particular area within the laboratory. A 95% upper prediction limit for the log-transformed lead level is given by <math>\bar{X} + t_{n-1,0.95} S \sqrt{\left( 1 + 1/n \right)}</math>. A two-sided prediction interval can be similarly computed. The meaning and interpretation of these intervals are well known. For example, if the confidence interval <math>\bar{X} \pm t_{n-1,0.975} S / \sqrt{n}</math> is computed repeatedly from independent samples, 95% of the intervals so computed will include the true value of mu, in the long run. In other words, the interval is meant to provide information concerning the parameter mu only. A prediction interval has a similar interpretation, and is meant to provide information concerning a single lead level only. Now suppose we want to use the sample to conclude whether or not at least 95% of the population lead levels are below a threshold. The confidence interval and prediction interval cannot answer this question, since the confidence interval is only for the median lead level, and the prediction interval is only for a single lead level. What is required is a tolerance interval; more specifically, an upper tolerance limit. The upper tolerance limit is to be computed subject to the condition that at least 95% of the population lead levels is below the limit, with a certain confidence level, say 99%.</blockquote>
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| ==Further reading==
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| * "Preliminaries", Chap. 1 in;<ref name=Krishnamoorthy/> available at [http://media.wiley.com/product_data/excerpt/68/04703802/0470380268.pdf]
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| *<ref name="Young:2010:JSSOBK:v36i05">{{cite journal| author=Derek S. Young| title=tolerance: An R Package for Estimating Tolerance Intervals| journal=Journal of Statistical Software| year=2010| month=8| volume=36| number=5| pages=1–39| issn=1548-7660| url=http://www.jstatsoft.org/v36/i05| accessdate=19 February 2013}}</ref>
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| ==References==
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