A Comparison of Approximate Interval Estimators for the Bernoulli Parameter

American Statistician

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 63-68

  Leemis, Lawrence M ^a   Trivedi, Kishor S ^b  

^a Asian and Middle Eastern Studies Program   (United States)

^b Duke University   (United States)

Author keywords

Binomial distribution; Confidence interval; Poisson distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030536433     PISSN: 00031305     EISSN: 15372731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00031305.1996.10473544     Document Type: Article

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