EnvStats (version 2.1.0)

tolIntNparConfLevel: Confidence Level for Nonparametric Tolerance Interval for Continuous Distribution

Description

Compute the confidence level associated with a nonparametric $\beta$-content tolerance interval for a continuous distribution given the sample size, coverage, and ranks of the order statistics used for the interval.

Usage

tolIntNparConfLevel(n, coverage = 0.95, ltl.rank = ifelse(ti.type == "upper", 0, 1), 
    n.plus.one.minus.utl.rank = ifelse(ti.type == "lower", 0, 1), ti.type = "two.sided")

Arguments

n

vector of positive integers specifying the sample sizes. Missing (NA), undefined (NaN), and infinite (Inf, -Inf) values are not allowed.

coverage

numeric vector of values between 0 and 1 indicating the desired coverage of the $\beta$-content tolerance interval.

ltl.rank

vector of positive integers indicating the rank of the order statistic to use for the lower bound of the tolerance interval. If ti.type="two-sided" or ti.type="lower", the default value is ltl.rank=1 (implyi

n.plus.one.minus.utl.rank

vector of positive integers related to the rank of the order statistic to use for the upper bound of the tolerance interval. A value of n.plus.one.minus.utl.rank=1 (the default) means use the first largest value, and in general a

ti.type

character string indicating what kind of tolerance interval to compute. The possible values are "two-sided" (the default), "lower", and "upper".

Value

• vector of values between 0 and 1 indicating the confidence level associated with the specified nonparametric tolerance interval.

Details

If the arguments n, coverage, ltl.rank, and n.plus.one.minus.utl.rank are not all the same length, they are replicated to be the same length as the length of the longest argument. The help file for tolIntNpar explains how nonparametric $\beta$-content tolerance intervals are constructed and how the confidence level associated with the tolerance interval is computed based on specified values for the sample size, the coverage, and the ranks of the order statistics used for the bounds of the tolerance interval.

References

See the help file for tolIntNpar.

See Also

tolIntNpar, tolIntNparN, tolIntNparCoverage, plotTolIntNparDesign.

Examples

# Look at how the confidence level of a nonparametric tolerance interval increases with 
  # increasing sample size:

  seq(10, 60, by=10) 
  #[1] 10 20 30 40 50 60 

  round(tolIntNparConfLevel(n = seq(10, 60, by = 10)), 2) 
  #[1] 0.09 0.26 0.45 0.60 0.72 0.81

  #----------

  # Look at how the confidence level of a nonparametric tolerance interval decreases with 
  # increasing coverage:

  seq(0.5, 0.9, by = 0.1) 
  #[1] 0.5 0.6 0.7 0.8 0.9 

  round(tolIntNparConfLevel(n = 10, coverage = seq(0.5, 0.9, by = 0.1)), 2) 
  #[1] 0.99 0.95 0.85 0.62 0.26

  #----------

  # Look at how the confidence level of a nonparametric tolerance interval decreases with the 
  # rank of the lower tolerance limit:

  round(tolIntNparConfLevel(n = 60, ltl.rank = 1:5), 2) 
  #[1] 0.81 0.58 0.35 0.18 0.08

  #==========

  # Example 17-4 on page 17-21 of USEPA (2009) uses copper concentrations (ppb) from 3 
  # background wells to set an upper limit for 2 compliance wells.  There are 6 observations 
  # per well, and the maximum value from the 3 wells is set to the 95% confidence upper 
  # tolerance limit, and we need to determine the coverage of this tolerance interval.  

  tolIntNparCoverage(n = 24, conf.level = 0.95, ti.type = "upper")
  #[1] 0.8826538

  # Here we will modify the example and determine the confidence level of the tolerance 
  # interval when we set the coverage to 95%. 

  tolIntNparConfLevel(n = 24, coverage = 0.95, ti.type = "upper")
  # [1] 0.708011