Sachin J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Google search gave me this: > > http://ewr.cee.vt.edu/environmental/teach/smprimer/intervals/interval.html > > TIA > Sachin
With those definitions (which are hardly universal), tolerance intervals are the same as prediction intervals with k == m == 1, which is what R provides. > > Peter Dalgaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sachin J writes: > > > RUsers: > > > > Just confirming, does predict function with interval="prediction" > > option gives prediction interval or tolerance interval?. Sorry for > > reposting this question. > > > Is there any definition of tolerance interval that is different from > prediction interval? > > (Tolerance intervals in the medical sense means intervals that are > designed to detect patients with abnormal levels of serum cholesterol > (say).) > > -- > O__ ---- Peter Dalgaard Øster Farimagsgade 5, Entr.B > c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics PO Box 2099, 1014 Cph. K > (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+45) 35327918 > ~~~~~~~~~~ - ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) FAX: (+45) 35327907 > > > > --------------------------------- > Do you Yahoo!? > Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail. -- O__ ---- Peter Dalgaard Øster Farimagsgade 5, Entr.B c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics PO Box 2099, 1014 Cph. K (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+45) 35327918 ~~~~~~~~~~ - ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) FAX: (+45) 35327907 ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
