Interval estimation for a binomial proportion

Statistical Science

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 101-117

  Brown, Lawrence D ^a   Cai, T Tony ^a   Das Gupta, Anirban ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayes; Binomial distribution; Confidence intervals; Coverage probability; Edgeworth expansion; Expected length; Jeffreys prior; Normal approximation; Posterior

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000460102     PISSN: 08834237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/ss/1009213286     Document Type: Article

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