Inferences on the means of lognormal distributions using generalized p-values and generalized confidence intervals

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 115, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 103-121

  Krishnamoorthy, Krishna ^a   Mathew, Thomas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA AT LAFAYETTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Coverage probability; Generalized confidence interval; Generalized p value; Type I error probability

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037729064     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-3758(02)00153-2     Document Type: Article

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