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Coverage Intervals
Sara Stoudt1, Adam Pintar2, Antonio Possolo1
1Smith College, Northampton, MA 01063, USA.
Abstract:
Since coverage intervals are widely used expressions of measurement uncertainty, this contribution reviews coverage intervals as defined in the Guide to the Expression of Uncertainty in Measurement (GUM), and compares them against the principal types of probabilistic intervals that are commonly used in applied statistics and in measurement science. Although formally identical to conventional confidence intervals for means, the GUM interprets coverage intervals more as if they were Bayesian credible intervals, or tolerance intervals. We focus, in particular, on a common misunderstanding about the intervals derived from the results of the Monte Carlo method of the GUM Supplement 1 (GUM-S1), and offer a novel interpretation for these intervals that we believe will foster realistic expectations about what they can deliver, and how and when they can be useful in practice.
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