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Tolerance Intervals for the Normal Distribution

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If I measured a sample of 43 items,


and got a mean of 97.07
and a standard deviation of 0.0268
then I can be 99.0% certain
that 90.0% of the population
will be contained…

within the interval from: 97.010576 to 97.12942 (a Two-sided Tolerance Interval)

below the value: 97.120255 (an Upper One-sided Tolerance Interval)

above the value: 97.019745 (a Lower One-sided Tolerance Interval)

You can ignore the following intermediate quantities used in the calculation:
z(1-p): 1.2815516
z(1-g): 2.3263479
a: 0.9355727
b: 1.5165164
k1: 1.8751896
df: 42 1.959964
z((1-p)/2): 1.6448536
Excel's ChiSq(g,n-1): 23.650095
Robust ChiSq(g,n-1): 23.650095
k2: 2.2173159

Reference:
NIST/Sematech Handbook, Section 7.2.6.3
http://www.itl.nist.gov/div898/handbook/prc/section2/prc263.htm

Note: The very last line on this page:


"The upper (one-sided) tolerance limit is therefore 97.07 + 1.8752*2.68 = 102.096."
is wrong. The standard deviation is 0.0268, not 2.68, so the answer should be 97.12 .

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