Inference on rare errors using asymptotic expansions and bootstrap calibration

Biometrika

Volumn 87, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 689-694

  Helmers, Roelof ^a  

^a CWI   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Auditing; Cornish Fisher expansion; Finite population; Line item sampling; Nonstandard mixture; Poisson distribution; Rare error; Superpopulation model

Indexed keywords

EID: 0039002547     PISSN: 00063444     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biomet/87.3.689     Document Type: Article

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