For use with HP 50G or HP 49G+ Calculator
February 9, 2019
Let's assume that X is a random variable with a normal distribution. The probability is gamma that at least a proportion P of X is below m + k*s. Where m is an estimate of the mean and s is an estimate of the variance (from a sample of X).
gamma is also known as the confidence level.
Factors for one-sided tolerance limits: https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML1403/ML14031A495.pdf
NIST/SEMATECH e-Handbook of Statistical Methods https://www.itl.nist.gov/div898/handbook/prc/section2/prc263.htm
Thanks to University of Texas and their Source Code CDFLIB90: https://biostatistics.mdanderson.org/SoftwareDownload/SingleSoftware.aspx?Software_Id=21
Thanks to Egan Ford for his HPGCC guide: http://sense.net/~egan/hpgcc/
And of course thanks to the HPGCC team!
First, check that you have at least 104Kb of free ram on the HP 50G.
First Install the ARM toolbox library (which is needed to run ARM code) https://www.hpcalc.org/details/6090
- Copy the file ARMToolbox/SETUP.BIN to your HP 50g.
- On the HP 50g put the number 2 on the stack:
- put SETUP.BIN on the stack, not 'SETUP.BIN'. Your 50g should look like this:
Now press 
- Verify that the ARM Toolbox is installed by pressing
- Put the directory EXTEND at the root of your SD card.
- Install the Owen Library, Owen.lib in the port of your choice.
The Owen library consist of one single program "Owen"
An engineer is doing 50 measurements of the thickness of a component. The mean value is 2.3 mm and the standard deviation is 0.2 mm.
What is the 0.95/0.95 k-factor ?
In the calculator enter: n: 50 P: 0.95 Gamma: 0.95
The calculator gives the following result: k = 2.064993399768
This means that there is a probability of 95% that 95% of the component's thickness is less than 2.3+k*0.2 = 2.713 mm.
This value can be checked with the tables given in the reference pdf, page 47 (page 49 of the file): k = 2.065.
This can also be checked with R, using tolerance package (normtol function) https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/tolerance/