Comparison of test statistics via expected lengths of associated confidence intervals

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 97, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 141-151

  Mukerjee, Rahul ^a   Reid, Nancy ^b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT CALCUTTA   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

62E20; 62F25; Bartlett adjustability; Likelihood ratio statistic; Rao's score statistic; Wald's statistic

Indexed keywords

EID: 0008069098     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-3758(00)00350-5     Document Type: Article

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