A comparison of nine confidence intervals for a poisson parameter when the expected number of events is ≤ 5

American Statistician

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 85-89

  Barker, Lawrence ^a  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

Confidence interval; Exact inference; Poisson distribution; Scores interval; Small sample

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035995688     PISSN: 00031305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/000313002317572736     Document Type: Article

References (4)

1. The transformation of poisson, binomial, and negative binomial data
2. Transformations related to the angular and the square root
3. Two-sided confidence intervals for the single proportion: Comparison of seven methods
4. Interval estimation for the difference between independent proportions: Comparison of eleven methods