Likelihood confidence intervals for proportions in finite populations

American Statistician

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 55-61

  Wendell, John P ^a   Schmee, Josef ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b UNION COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Attribute; Dichotomous; Exact; Hypergeometric; Sampling

Indexed keywords

EID: 0041025285     PISSN: 00031305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/000313001300339941     Document Type: Article

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