How Large Does n Have to be for Z and t Intervals?

American Statistician

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 121-128

  Boos, Dennis D ^a   Hughes Oliver, Jacqueline M ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Central limit theorem; Confidence interval; Convergence to normality; Edgeworth expansion; Kurtosis; Skewness

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034381869     PISSN: 00031305     EISSN: 15372731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00031305.2000.10474524     Document Type: Article

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