Confidence curves and improved exact confidence intervals for discrete distributions

Canadian Journal of Statistics

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 783-798

  Blaker, Helge ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Acceptability; Binomial distribution; Hypergeometric distribution; Negative binomial distribution; Nested confidence regions; P value; Poisson distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034553665     PISSN: 03195724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3315916     Document Type: Article

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