Exploring the confidence interval for a binomial parameter in a first course in statistical computing

American Statistician

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 337-344

  Henderson, Michael ^a   Meyer, Mary C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayes credible interval; Exact confidence interval; Population proportion; Prior distribution; Score interval; Statistical simulations; Wilson confidence interval

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035638312     PISSN: 00031305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/000313001753272501     Document Type: Article

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