Confidence Intervals

New Plot

• To view a new plot select the plot button on the task bar. A seperate window of LS-OPT Viewer opens up.

LS-OPT Viewer 

1.  Choose Variables under the category Optimization.
2. Drag the Iteration to 4.
3. The Variable selection for YMod and Yield are already selected by default.
4. The user can view the Confidence Intervals and other bounds by double clicking on the respective bar plots.

• Alternatively the Confidence Intervals can be found in the lsopt_report file. The user can access the file by the following steps:

LS-OPT GUI

1. Select the Files menu located in the control bar.
2. Select the option Summary Report from the list.                                                                

A seperape file shall open, search for the term Confidence Interval at Iteration 4 (see file below).

The file lsopt_report is located in the working directory and can also be opened using any text editor.

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                 C O N F I D E N C E   I N T E R V A L S

                              ITERATION 4
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 95% Confidence intervals for individual optimal parameters
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Name                  Value              Confidence    
                                          Interval     
                                      Lower      Upper 
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YMod             786359.819         1361832.8  2934552.47
Yield            1001.28693        962.293152  1040.2807
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