Empirical likelihood confidence intervals for the mean of a population containing many zero values

Canadian Journal of Statistics

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 53-68

  Chen, Jiahua ^a   Chen, Shun Yi ^b   Rao, J N K ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b TAMKANG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Accounting; Likelihood ratio interval; Mixture model; Sampling; Stratification

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038578255     PISSN: 03195724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3315903     Document Type: Article

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