Tolerance Intervals

Methods

  

Minitab details the type of tolerance interval that you specified:

·    Confidence level The confidence level for the interval.

·    Percent of population in interval The minimum percentage of the population that you want the interval to cover.

Example Output

Method

 

Confidence level                   95%

Percent of population in interval  95%

Interpretation

For the washer data, Minitab creates a two-sided tolerance interval that states with 95% confidence that at least 95% of the population has measurements falling within the tolerance limits.