Construction of confidence intervals for the iviean of a population containing many zero values

Journal of Business and Economic Statistics

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 362-368

  Kvanli, Alan H ^a   Shen, Yaung Kaung ^b   Wang, Yongjun ^c   Deng, Lih Yuan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS   (United States)

^b GLAXOSMITHKLINE   (United Kingdom)

^c University of Memphis   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditing; Likelihood profile function; Likelihood ratio procedure; Robustness; Simulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0040042040     PISSN: 07350015     EISSN: 15372707     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07350015.1998.10524776     Document Type: Article

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