Approximate is better than “Exact” for interval estimation of binomial proportions

American Statistician

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 119-126

  Agresti, Alan ^a   Coull, Brent A ^b  

^a University of Florida ^*  (United States)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Confidence interval; Discrete distribution; Exact inference; Poisson distribution; Score test; Small sample

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032377357     PISSN: 00031305     EISSN: 15372731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00031305.1998.10480550     Document Type: Article

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