One-Sided Confidence Intervals for Means of Positively Skewed Distributions

American Statistician

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 100-104

  Zhou, Xiao Hua ^a   Gao, Sujuan ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bootstrap; Edgeworth expansion; ML estimators; Occupational exposures; Skewness

Indexed keywords

EID: 0040809005     PISSN: 00031305     EISSN: 15372731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00031305.2000.10474519     Document Type: Article

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