A Reference Population-Based Conformance Proportion

• Published in: Journal of Agricultural, Biological and Environmental Statistics Vol. 21; no. 4; pp. 684 - 697
• Main Authors: Lee, Hsin-I, Chen, Hungyen, Kishino, Hirohisa, Liao, Chen-Tuo
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 01.12.2016; Springer Science and Business Media LLC; Springer US; Springer; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Agriculture; Biostatistics; Computer simulation; Confidence interval; Confidence intervals; Confidence limits; Data analysis; Data processing; Degrees of freedom; Gaussian distributions; Health Sciences; Inference; Mathematics and Statistics; Medicine; Monitoring/Environmental Analysis; Population (statistical); population ecology; Proportions; Sample size; Simulations; statistical analysis; Statistical inference; statistical models; Statistics; Statistics for Life Sciences; Transgenic plants; Environmental assessment; Agricultural management; Generalized pivotal quantity; Variance component; Tolerance interval

Conformance proportion is a useful index in agricultural, biological, and environmental applications, which is defined as the proportion that a characteristic of interest falls in an acceptance region of a specification. In practice, however, the acceptance region may not be available when employing...