Improved confidence intervals for the difference between binomial proportions based on paired data

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 17, Issue 22, 1998, Pages 2635-2650

  Newcombe, Robert G ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; STATISTICS; TECHNIQUE;

BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS;

EID: 0032583107     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0258(19981130)17:22<2635::AID-SIM954>3.0.CO;2-C     Document Type: Article

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