Statistical inference for pr(y < x): The normal case

Technometrics

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 1986, Pages 253-257

  Reiser, Benjamin ^a   Guttman, Irwin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bayesian and sampling theory; Interval estimators; Maximum likelihood; Reliability

Indexed keywords

SAMPLING; STATISTICAL METHODS;

INTERVAL ESTIMATORS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; STATISTICAL INFERENCE;

RELIABILITY THEORY;

EID: 0022758747     PISSN: 00401706     EISSN: 15372723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00401706.1986.10488133     Document Type: Article

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