coverage

The coverage to be used for the calculation of the lower and upper ends of the interval covering the user supplied samples.

Specification

• Alias: None

• Arguments: REAL

• Default: 0.95

Description

The coverage must be a value between 0 and 1. Once the mean and standard deviation ‘s_equiv’ of the equivalent normal distribution are computed (based on the “confidence_level” input parameter), Dakota uses this “coverage” input parameter to know how much it has to multiply ‘s_equiv’ in order to get the lower and upper ends of the interval covering the user supplied samples.

Default Behavior

A value of 0.95 (95%) is the default value for this parameter.

Examples

method
  sampling
    samples 5
    refinement_samples 4 3 3
    sample_type random
    tolerance_intervals
      coverage 0.96
      confidence_level 0.92
    seed = 31415