Optimal sample sizes for estimating the difference in means between two normal populations treating confidence interval length as a random variable

Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 727-741

  Wang, Yue ^a   Kupper, Lawrence L ^a  

^a IL   (United States)

Author keywords

Normality; Optimal sample size ratio; Population mean difference

Indexed keywords

ESTIMATION; OPTIMIZATION; PROBABILITY; RANDOM PROCESSES;

OPTIMAL SAMPLE SIZE RATIO; POPULATION MEAN DIFFERENCE;

STATISTICAL METHODS;

EID: 0031083967     PISSN: 03610926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03610929708831945     Document Type: Article

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