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Table 28 Performance of tolerance intervals based on Cauchy distribution when the true distribution is Laplace (G: Cauchy; F: Laplace)

From: Tolerance intervals in statistical software and robustness under model misspecification

  

n = 10

n = 25

n = 50

n = 100

n = 10

n = 25

n = 50

n = 100

  

ρ= 0.9

   

ρ= 0.95

   

α = 0.01

\(\hat {\alpha }\)

0.0092

0.0001

0.0000

0.0000

0.0007

0.0000

0.0000

0.0000

 

\(\hat {\rho }\)

0.9940

0.9967

0.9965

0.9952

0.9996

1.0000

1.0000

1.0000

 

\(\hat {s}\)

0.0193

0.0062

0.0040

0.0034

0.0035

0.0003

0.0001

0.0001

α= 0.05

\(\hat {\alpha }\)

0.0178

0.0005

0.0000

0.0000

0.0026

0.0000

0.0000

0.0000

 

\(\hat {\rho }\)

0.9905

0.9947

0.9946

0.9933

0.9993

0.9999

0.9999

0.9999

 

\(\hat {s}\)

0.0256

0.0088

0.0055

0.0044

0.0050

0.0005

0.0002

0.0001

α= 0.1

\(\hat {\alpha }\)

0.0231

0.0009

0.0001

0.0000

0.0037

0.0000

0.0000

0.0000

 

\(\hat {\rho }\)

0.9878

0.9931

0.9932

0.9921

0.9990

0.9998

0.9999

0.9999

 

\(\hat {s}\)

0.0298

0.0106

0.0064

0.0051

0.0062

0.0007

0.0002

0.0001

α= 0.2

\(\hat {\alpha }\)

0.0343

0.0019

0.0001

0.0000

0.0055

0.0000

0.0000

0.0000

 

\(\hat {\rho }\)

0.9835

0.9906

0.9912

0.9903

0.9985

0.9998

0.9999

0.9999

 

\(\hat {s}\)

0.0357

0.0131

0.0078

0.0059

0.0080

0.0010

0.0003

0.0002

  

ρ= 0.99

   

ρ= 0.995

   

α = 0.01

\(\hat {\alpha }\)

0.0000

0.0000

0.0000

0.0000

0.0000

0.0000

0.0000

0.0000

 

\(\hat {\rho }\)

1.0000

1.0000

1.0000

1.0000

1.0000

1.0000

1.0000

1.0000

 

\(\hat {s}\)

0.0000

0.0000

0.0000

0.0000

0.0000

0.0000

0.0000

0.0000

α= 0.05

\(\hat {\alpha }\)

0.0000

0.0000

0.0000

0.0000

0.0000

0.0000

0.0000

0.0000

 

\(\hat {\rho }\)

1.0000

1.0000

1.0000

1.0000

1.0000

1.0000

1.0000

1.0000

 

\(\hat {s}\)

0.0000

0.0000

0.0000

0.0000

0.0000

0.0000

0.0000

0.0000

α= 0.1

\(\hat {\alpha }\)

0.0000

0.0000

0.0000

0.0000

0.0000

0.0000

0.0000

0.0000

 

\(\hat {\rho }\)

1.0000

1.0000

1.0000

1.0000

1.0000

1.0000

1.0000

1.0000

 

\(\hat {s}\)

0.0000

0.0000

0.0000

0.0000

0.0000

0.0000

0.0000

0.0000

α= 0.2

\(\hat {\alpha }\)

0.0000

0.0000

0.0000

0.0000

0.0000

0.0000

0.0000

0.0000

 

\(\hat {\rho }\)

1.0000

1.0000

1.0000

1.0000

1.0000

1.0000

1.0000

1.0000

 

\(\hat {s}\)

0.0000

0.0000

0.0000

0.0000

0.0000

0.0000

0.0000

0.0000

  1. The bolded values are \({\hat \alpha }\) within \(\pm 2 \sqrt {\alpha (1-\alpha)/M}\) and \({\hat \rho }\) within \(\pm 2 \sqrt {\rho (1-\rho)/M}\)