Unconditional confidence interval for the difference between two proportions

Biometrical Journal

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 426-436

  Martin Andres A ^a   Herranz Tejedor, I ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^b SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Difference of two proportions; Equivalence of proportions; Exact and asymptotic confidence interval; Exact and asymptotic unconditional test; Symmetric and non symmetric confidence interval

Indexed keywords

ASYMPTOTICS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DIFFERENCE OF TWO PROPORTION; EQUIVALENCE OF PROPORTION; EXACT AND ASYMPTOTIC CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; EXACT AND ASYMPTOTIC UNCONDITIONAL TEST; SYMMETRIC AND NON-SYMMETRIC CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; SYMMETRICS; UNCONDITIONAL TESTS;

EID: 0038345635     PISSN: 03233847     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bimj.200390023     Document Type: Article

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