Confidence intervals for some performance measures of yes-no forecasts

Australian Meteorological Magazine

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 49-53

  Seaman, R ^b   Mason, I ^a   Woodcock, F ^a  

^a Dept of Administrative Services ^*

^b BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY RESEARCH CENTRE   (Australia)

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