Abstract

This article proposes a new procedure for obtaining one-sided tolerance limits in unbalanced random effects models. The procedure is a generalization of that proposed by Mee and Owen for the balanced situation, and can be easily implemented, because it only needs a non-central-t table. Two simulation studies are carried out to assess the performance of the new procedure and to compare it with one of the other procedures laid out in previous statistical literature. The article findings show that the new procedure is much simpler to compute and performs better than the previous ones, having inferior values of the gamma bias in a wide range of situations, representative of many actual industrial applications, and behaving also reasonably well in more extreme sampling situations. The use of the new limits is illustrated by an application to an actual example from the steel industry.

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