Confidence intervals for the log-normal mean

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 16, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 783-790

  Zhou, Xiao Hua ^a,b   Gao, Sujuan ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Regenstrief Institute for Health Care   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICS;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SAMPLE SIZE;

EID: 0030903159     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0258(19970415)16:7<783::AID-SIM488>3.0.CO;2-2     Document Type: Article

References (12)

1. Koch, G. S. and Link, R. F. Statistical Analysis of Geological Data, Dover Publications, New York, 1980.
2. Aitchison, J. and Brown, J. A. C. The Lognormal Distribution, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 1957.
3. Kotz, S. and Johnson, L. Encyclopedia of Statistical Sciences, Volume 5, Wiley, New York, 1985.
4. Sartwell, P. E. 'The distribution of incubation periods of infectious disease', American Journal of Hygiene, 51, 310-318 (1950).
5. Lawless, J. F. Statistical Models and Methods for Lifetime Data, Wiley, New York, 1982.
6. Land, C. E. 'An evaluation of approximate confidence interval estimation methods for lognormal means', Technometrics, 14, 145-158 (1972).
7. Patterson, R. L. 'Difficulties involved in the estimation of a population mean using transformed sample data', Technometrics, 8, 535-537 (1966).
8. Land, C. E. 'Confidence intervals for linear functions of the normal mean and variance', Annals of Mathematical Statistics, 42, 1187-1205 (1971).
9. Angus, J. E. 'Inferences on the lognormal mean for complete samples', Communications in Statistics - Simulation and Computation, 17, 1307-1331 (1988).
10. Angus, J. E. 'Bootstrap one-sided confidence intervals for the log-normal mean', Statistician, 43, 395-401 (1994).
11. Lubitz, R. M., Dittus, R. S., Paul, J., Joyce, D. Z., Melfi, C. A., Green, R. L., Freund, D. A., Fleming-Moran, M., Heck, D. A. and Coyte, P. C. 'Post-operative outcomes following knee arthroplasty: Effect of severe obesity', Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery, submitted, 1996.
12. Lehmann, E. L. The Theory of Point Estimation, Wiley, New York, 1983.