On exact confidence intervals for the common mean of several normal populations

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 81, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 263-277

  Yu, Philip L H ^a   Sun, Yijun ^b   Sinha, Bimal K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

Author keywords

Common mean; Confidence interval; Fisher's method; Graybill Deal estimator; P values; Pivots

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033227933     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-3758(99)00052-X     Document Type: Article

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