Bayesian tolerance regions with an application to linear mixed models

09/18/2022

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by   X. Gregory Chen, et al.

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We review and contrast frequentist and Bayesian definitions of tolerance regions. We give conditions under which for large samples a Bayesian region also has frequentist validity, and study the latter for smaller samples in a simulation study. We discuss a computational strategy for computing a Bayesian two-sided tolerance interval for a Gaussian future variable, and apply this to the case of possibly unbalanced linear mixed models. We illustrate the method on a quality control experiment from the pharmaceutical industry.