Signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) as a measure of reproducibility: design, estimation, and application

This paper proposes the use of signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) as another index of a measurement’s reproducibility. We derive its maximum likelihood estimation and discuss confidence interval construction within the framework of the one-way random effect model. We investigate the validity of the approximate normal confidence interval by Monte-Carlo simulations. The paper also derives the optimal allocation for the number of subject and the number of...